From the August 2000 Peg-Board
EYVIND EARLE, who contributed backgrounds for the classic Disney films of the 1950s, died July 20, 2000 at the age of eighty-four.
Earle had his first exhibition in France when he was thirteen, and at twenty-three he sold his first watercolor to the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. He began adapting his landscapes to Christmas cards in the 1940s, eventually painting more than eight hundred designs.
His first project for Disney was the animated short Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom, which won both an Oscar and a Cannes Film Festival award. For the rest of the decade, Disney kept him busy painting the settings for Sleeping Beauty, Peter Pan, Paul Bunyan and Lady and the Tramp. He received ASIFA's Annie Award in 1998.
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