Wednesday, August 05, 2015

I am ashamed to say... I should know this but can't remember. Could anyone of you remind me who painted Donald in the style of the old masters for those paintings which appeared (among other places) in The Reluctant Dragon.

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Christian S. said...

I don't know who painted Donald Duck, but I do know that Dick Lundy animated him in his debut cartoon Wise Little Hen (1934), and I believe Al Taliaferro drew the comic strips of the duck in the 30s

7:55 AM
Major Pepperidge said...

Ward Kimball published a book in 1964 called "Art Afterpieces", with paintings like the ones in your photo.

11:16 AM
Didier Ghez said...

Yes, Ward was inspired by those but I doubt he actually painted them.

11:35 AM
Garry Apgar said...

Those Old Masters pastiches involving Donald Duck were NOT paintings, but rather drawings made using colored pencils. And Didier is right. Ward Kimball did not "paint" the parodies mentioned in one of the earlier comments.

The satirical images in Ward's 1964 book (2nd edition, 1975) were essentially collages made using reproductions of famous works of art, probably clipped from art history books, much like what the Dadaist Marcel Duchamp did in 1919 when he scrawled a mustache on a postcard of the Mona Lisa.

That's the famous image bearing the caption "L.H.O.O.Q.," which in spoken French sounds like "Elle a chaud au cul," and translates in English as "She's got a hot a--." Just the sort of humor that would have appealed to Kimball, and also his one-time son-in-law, the artist Lyn Foulkes, who's earned a nice chunk of change over the years painting often scurrilous images mocking Walt Disney.

2:55 PM
PIERRE LAMBERT said...

Dear Didier, dear Garry,

The animator Ray Patin was the artist who draw all the Donald colored pastels.

Howard Lowery had sold in 1993 this original pastel "Soup's on" pastiche of Pieter Brueghel masterpiece ( dated 1941).








11:33 PM
Are Myklebust said...

The drawings was made by the Disney artists Ray Patin and John Dunn.

12:05 AM
DisneyDave said...

I have seen eight of these pieces in person and they are gorgeous. They currently reside in a private collection. I believe my friend has also just added a ninth one to his collection. Yes, they were created using colored pencils, however, the Donald Duck Gainsborough Blue Boy piece of art also has an airbrushed cel overlay. Spectacular creations.

8:50 AM
Dennis Books said...

I OWN NINE OF THE ORIGINAL SEVENTEEN WHICH CAN BE FOUND ON THE WALLS OF THE DISNEY STUDIO IN THE FILM "THE RELUCTANT DRAGON". THEY WERE ALL DONE BY RAY PATIN, JOHN DUNN AND PHIL KLEIN. THEY CAN BE SEEN ON MY WEB SITE COMICARTFANS.COM UNDER MY NAME DENNIS BOOKS. I KNOW THE LOCATION OF FOUR MORE AND OF COURSE WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO PART WITH THEIRS. IN ADDITION I HAVE OTHER ART WORK FROM "DONALD AND THE OLD MASTERS" WHICH IS NOT POSTED YET.

10:26 AM
DisneyDave said...

Here is the link to Dennis' gallery of art.

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=10458

1:23 PM

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