Awaking Beauty: The Art of Eyvind Earle

Awaking Beauty: The Art of Eyvind Earle is the official catalog for the 2017 Walt Disney Family Museum exhibition of the same name. This digital PDF edition brings together Earle’s Disney animations, commercial work, and fine-art paintings in one downloadable file. You can access it immediately after purchase.

Earle was an American artist known for his background paintings on Sleeping Beauty, Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom, and other Disney films. His larger career also includes Christmas cards, serigraphs, scratchboards, oil landscapes, and poems.

Book Overview

Credited to Ioan Szasz, Michael Labrie, The Walt Disney Family Museum, and Kirsten Komoroske, this book traces Earle’s life and output from his first solo show at age fourteen to his later years in California. It follows his work as a Disney background painter, his commercial animation and advertising projects, and his return to fine art full-time in 1966. The text also covers his expertise in serigraphy and his scratchboards for the autobiography Horizon Bound on a Bicycle.

The catalog gives readers a structured tour through Earle’s development, with chapters on his early life and work, the Walt Disney Studios, and commercial and late work. It is a substantial reference for animation historians, collectors, and artists.

What You’ll Discover Inside

• Earle’s early life, including his first solo exhibition at fourteen and his bicycle journey across the United States.
• His work as a background painter at The Walt Disney Studios from 1951, including Sleeping Beauty and Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom.
• The story behind his Christmas cards, which have sold more than 300 million copies.
• His shift to commercial animation and advertising after leaving Disney in 1958.
• His mastery of serigraphy, a silkscreen process that could require up to 200 screens.
• His graphic scratchboards and meditative oil paintings of California landscapes.
• His legacy in museum collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Why Awaking Beauty Matters

Eyvind Earle helped define the visual style of one of Disney’s most beloved animated features. This exhibition catalog preserves the range of his achievement beyond the studio, showing how his fine art and commercial work informed each other.

For students of animation, illustration, and mid-century American art, the book offers documented context and generous reproductions of Earle’s work. It also connects the artist’s personal story to the larger history of the Walt Disney Studios.

Book Details

Device Compatibility

This is a digital PDF download, so no physical item will be shipped. Access is available immediately after purchase through your digitaldelights.co account.

The file works with Kindle apps, tablets, desktop computers, mobile devices, and standard reading apps. You can begin reading as soon as the download completes.

FAQ

How do I get access after purchase? The PDF download is available instantly from your account.

Will I receive a physical copy? No. This is a digital-only product.

Which devices are supported? The PDF works with Kindle apps, tablets, desktops, smartphones, and most reading software.

Add Awaking Beauty: The Art of Eyvind Earle to your library today and discover the full arc of Eyvind Earle’s art.