Eyvind Earle

Born in novel York in 1916, Eyvind Earle began his prolific career at the age of ten when his father, Ferdinand Earle, gave him a challenging choice: read 50 pages of a work or paint a picture each day. Earle choose both. From the time of his first one-man showing in France when he was 14 Earle's fame had grown steadily. At the age of 21 Earle bicycled across land from Hollywood to New York, paying his way by the agency of painting 42 watercolors. In 1937 he make opened at the Charles Morgan Galleries, his first of many one-man present to views in New York. Two years later at his third consecutive showing at the gallery, the rejoinder to his work was in the way that positive that the exhibition sold without and the Metropolitan Museum of Art purchased single of his paintings for their permanent collection. His earliest work was strictly realistic, on the contrary after having studied the work of a variety of masters like as Van Gogh, Cezanne, Rockwell, Kent and Georgia O'Keefe Earle through the age of 21, came into his have unique style. His oeuvre is characterized by dint of a simplicity, directness and sureness of handling.

In 1951 Earle joined Walt Disney studios as an assistant background painter. Earle intrigued Disney in 1953 when he created the direct the eye of "Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom" an animated short that won an Academy Award and a Cannes Film Festival Award. Disney kept the artist busy for the quiescence of decade, painting the settings for of that kind stories as "Peter Pan", "For Whom the males Toil", "Working for Peanuts", "Pigs is Pigs", "Paul Bunyan" and "Lady and the Tramp". Earle was responsible for the styling, background and colors for the highly acclaimed movie "Sleeping Beauty" and gave the movie its magical, medieval gaze He also painted the dioramas for Sleeping Beauty's Castle at Disneyland in Anaheim, California.

Earle's work was also seen upon television. One of his animated creations was an 18-minute version of the story of the Nativity that he did in 1963 for Tennessee Ernie Ford's Special "The Story of Christmas". A Daily Variety reviewer said Earle's following "should be preserved and played back for years upon end." The show was digitally re-mastered in 1997

Earle's career has encompassed many different fields. In addition to volume illustrating, the artist had also designed a number of overlays for magazine publications and had produc and created several animated commercials and specials for television.

In 1998 at its Annie Awards exhibit in Glendale, the International Animated Film Society gave Earle its Windsor McCay Award for lifetime achievement.

In the 1940's, Earle adapted his creative landscapes to Christmas cards, painting more than 800 designs that have sold more than 300 million copies end American Artist Group.

After about 15 years creating animated art, Earle turn backed to painting full time in 1966 and kept working until the extreme point of his life. In addition to his watercolors, oils, plastic arts drawings and scratchboards, in 1974 he began making limited edition serigraphs. Eyvind Earle had a totally original perception of landscape. He fortunately synthesizes seemingly incongruent aspects into a singularly distinctive style: a phraseology which is at once mysterious, primitive, disciplined, variable and nostalgic. He captures the grandeur of simplicity of the American countryside, and exhibits these glimpses of the American representation with a direct lyric ardor. His landscapes are remarkable for their suggestion of distances, landmasses and weather moods

"For 70 years," Earle wrote in 1996 "I've painted paintings, and I'm constantly and everlastingly overwhelmed at the stupendous infinity of Nature. Wherever I make go round and look, there I diocese creation. Art is creating Art is the search for truth"

Eyvind Earle passed away upon July 20, 2000 at the age of 84 During his lifetime he created many paintings, statuarys scratchboards, watercolors and drawings that have not been publicly seen or exhibited. Eyvind Earle Publishing LLC below the specific instruction of the late Eyvind Earle, will continue the legacy of the artist, promoting and introducing of recent origin serigraphs and books through galleries worldwide. These posthumous limited edition serigraphs will be printed from the oil paintings created by the agency of Eyvind Earle that are in the collection of Joan Earle and others.

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