Animation Artifacts &Bill Peckmann &Books &Disney &Illustration 03 Dec 2010 09:53 am
He Drew As He Pleased – 4
- Here are more pages from the book by Albert Hurter, He Drew As He Pleased (Simon and Schuster, 1948.) This gem is a rare book, indeed.
Albert Hurter was one of the European illustrators Disney brought into his studio for Snow White and Pinocchio. Hurter was the his own master, drawing designs which would be used generally to further the design of the features and Silly Symphonies.
A similar position seems to have gone to Joe Grant when he worked in the period during the making of Beauty and the Beast through The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Some of his drawings, as can be seen in John Canemaker‘s book, Two Guys Named Joe, are just as brilliant. Indeed, there were a lot of brilliant artists floating around the Disney studio in the late Thirties, early Forties.
Many thanks to Bill Peckmann for the loan of the book’s pages and the arduous task of scanning these illustrations.
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“He was fond of scarecrows . . . ”
51“They were so simple and natural . . .”
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52“One of Albert’s ambitions was
to design a scarecrow ballet.”
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54“When Fantasia was planned,
he began playing with mythology.”
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57Variations on a Centaur
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58Gladiators at Work
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59The Titans
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62Medusa and Contemporaries
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64Victims of Circe
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65Siamese and Otherwise
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on 03 Dec 2010 at 11:42 am 1.Eric Noble said …
I love these. What imagination he had. I love his scarecrows. I think they are favorites out of this post, although his Greek mythology drawings are not far behind. Many thanks to you and Bill Peckmann.
on 05 Dec 2010 at 10:23 am 2.Robert from the Snow White Sanctum said …
Thanks for your continued posts on one of the greats–Albert Hurter and his now hard-to-find book. Rare treat indeed.