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Albert Dorne
Albert Dorne’s success as an illustrator, and later as a businessman, is a resounding testament to good old-fashioned hard work and perseverance. Born into the slums of New York’s East Side in 1904, Dorne’s childhood was marred by severe poverty and illness. Overcoming tuberculosis, a heart condition, as well as a thoroughly inadequate education, Albert [...]
Mary Blair
Widely recognized for her trend-setting collaborations with industry pioneer Walt Disney, concept artist Mary Blair forever altered the landscape of American animation with her innovative and uncompromising artistic vision. To many, Blair was the antithesis to Disney’s “illusion of life,” a successful conceptual and visual formula created with early films like Snow White and the [...]
Ernesto Garcia Cabral
The most prolific illustrator, caricaturist and cartoonist in the history of Mexican journalism, Ernesto Garcia Cabral has been called “The Greatest Cartoonist You’ve Never Heard Of,” due to his singular style and until recently, relative obscurity. Often associated with the brilliant lobby cards he executed during The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema, Cabral was never [...]