Mary Blair overload

John Martz | March 17th, 2006

The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project Blog (Can I just start calling it the ASIFAHAAPB?) continues asserting its dominance in the field of excellence by posting scans from Mary Blair’s out-of-print Baby’s House. A few months ago they also posted images from Blair’s Little Verses (Part One / Part Two).

And if you’re a fan of Mary Blair’s gorgeous work, then surely you have your copy of The Art And Flair Of Mary Blair : An Appreciation by now, right?

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  • No such thing as overload, even on the The Small World ride
  • It looks like her work, or at least Baby's House, was given out as a primer to all of the designers on Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. The style is remarkably similar, and that's a good thing.
  • Could you imagine if she used Illustrator, you got to marvel at this type of work from the past. Halcyon days they were. Good wealth of ideas for new designers. The colors and shapes are a good lesson from the masters of that time period. Kudos.
  • I have an original Blair, and she did indeed use gouache.
  • wry cooter
    Overloading on Mary Blair is impossible.

    Except for The Small World ride, which was designed expressly for that purpose.
  • lu
    my question with her style was always "what does she use?" i think this was discussed a little while back, people suggested she used guache? i've never used it, i always thought this looked like print separations...
  • No, but I do have Baby's House. I read it thousands of times to my daughter. She wanted nothing else, night after night after night after...
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