Those three marvelous concept drawings of Clarabelle Cow and Horace Horsecollar are being sold by Wonderful World of Animation.

I wonder what short they were created for, but I just fell in love with them.

For obvious reasons (alcohol and cigarette) this stunning piece by Mel Shaw for The Great Mouse Detective sold recently by Van Eaton Galleries will not make it into They Drew As They Pleased - Volume 5, but I thought you would all enjoy it.

Van Eaton Galleries updated their website this morning and I could not resist sharing this new Mary Blair that they just unearthed and which I hope to include in They Drew As They Pleased - Volume 4.

Quite a few wonderful pieces of concept art by Andreas Deja from The Black Cauldron released earlier this week by Van Eaton Galleries. Definitely worth checking out!

Recently re-discovered art from Pinocchio by Curt Perkins. Just for your enjoyment.

Do you own any art by David Hall, Kay Nielsen, Sylvia Holland, Retta Scott or Walt Scott or do you know of anyone who does? If so, could you please email me ASAP at didier.ghez@gmail.com? I am trying to gather as much new material as possible by these artists by the end of July (in digital format) in order to include those pieces in the second volume of They Drew As They Pleased.

If you bought this marvelous piece of concept art by Walt Scott a few months / years ago, could you please email me at didier.ghez@gmail.com? I would love to include it in the second volume of my new book series They Drew As They Pleased.

On Monday, I posted a note about the artist who created these pieces of concept art for the abandoned Hans Christian Andersen project. I knew that there had been mostly two artists working on the project in the early '40s: John McLeish and a French painter called Charles Hoffbauer. Based on their respective styles I am now 99.9% sure that it was actually Hoffbauer who created this art. We should have more info about the whole thing in a few months since some of Hobbauer's diaries have survived and are preserved in Washington D.C.

Based on documentation I located recently, I am almost, but not completely, certain that the pieces of concept art created for the live-action section of the abandoned Disney project about the life of Hans Christian Andersen from the early 1940s were created by story artist (and narrator of the "How to" Goofy short) John McLeish (a.k.a. John Ployardt).

The issue is that I have not been able to find any other piece of art by John McLeish (Disney or non-Disney) and I can't therefore compare the style of these renderings to other works by McLeish (save for as series of totally abstract paintings which are irrelevant).

Could any reader of the blog help?

[UPDATE: I was wrong: I am now 99.9% certain that those paintings were created by Charles Hoffbauer, who worked briefly at the Studio and was one of the two main artists working on the Hans Christian Andersen project, along with McLeish.]

Great piece of art by Fred Spencer being sold at the moment on Animation Art Gallery (Thanks to Dan Cunningham for the heads up).

 This just in from Gunnar Andreassen:

[Here's the 8th dwarf - Boxy - drawn by Riley Thom(p)son - and a caricature he made of himself.

Some years ago those two and a collection of other drawings were up for auction at Bonhams - but I don't think they were sold.

From the description:

A collection of over 100 erotic and raunchy colored pencil drawings by the Disney animator, Riley Thomson

1930s, colored pencil on animation paper, bound in a vintage book, the collection includes a drawing of Mickey Mouse as the sorcerer's apprentice who wishes for a larger penis which is granted; a drawing of a wolf man inscribed OK Nick Nichols, OK Ford, OK Bob Leunin, OK Riley, OK Ward Kimball, OK Walt; bad boy Peter with Daisy; a penis with a face looking into the magic mirror; 12 drawings of a story of Jenny the hillbilly (whose face resembles Dopey); five drawings making reference to work; 15 drawings of self-portraits all with sexual references; 29 drawings of Glover and Doc Friendly, Glover has lost all limbs except for one who is obsessed with erected penises; 11 drawings of portraits, some very finished drawings; 7 drawings making references to Burk /Anthony with large penises; 6 drawings depicting Stanford students as penises; 20 miscellaneous drawings with erotic references.

Riley Thomson began his career in 1935 as an animator of Warner Bros. Merry Melodies. He began working for the Disney Studios in 1938 and animated some of Disney's Mickey shorts such as The Little Whirlwind, The Nifty Nineties and Mickey's Birthday Party. He was most famously known for animating Mickey Mouse as the Sorcerer Apprentice, for which he created a character that looked less like a rat and more like a cute mouse by exaggerating his features. In the early 1950s, he began drawing comics with Disney characters for Western Publishing. By the late 1950s, he took over the Brer Rabbit Sunday page from Dick Moores and continued doing that until 1959.]

This just in from Mark Mayerson:

[Last Oct. 24 you ran an image from the Stan Laurel estate that was a Disney studio caricature of Laurel and Hardy with the three little pigs.

The above photo, courtesy of Mark Evanier's newsfromme.com, shows the same image on the wall behind the two comedians.]

From Stan Laurel's estate - Stan, Ollie and the 3 Little Pigs by "Disney." Thanks to Mark Mayerson for the heads up.

 And here are a few sketches by Ferdinand Hovath, also from Hakes.com

According to Heritage Auction this Lucky Strike ad was created by the Disney Studio. Could any reader confirm this?

Wonderful Freddie Moore drawing seem this week on Heritage Auctions.

This just in from Gunnar:

[I just found this rather exeptional piece of art on ComicArt Fans:

From description:

Story Painting for Winken, Blinken and Nod, 1938

Signed pre-production artwork from the Disney studio is very rare. This exceptional painting in watercolor and guache is signed by Emil Flohri, who worked for Disney from 1929 until 1938. It is painted on paper similar to that used for background paintings and is rather large for story art -- 9 X 11 inches.]

This just in from Gunnar Andreassen:

[Have you during you moving days to the USA had time to view the last offers at Van Eation Galleries ?

 

Dozens and dozens of model sheets from the 1930s - a lot of which I hadn't seen earlier:

 

http://www.vegalleries.com/newart.html]

 

I had not seen those. I have selected those three highlights. Two from Ken Anderson and one from Ferdinand Horvath.

I love this homage to Tintin by Italian artist Corrado Mastantuono and thought you would too.

Mickey's Dream, as released in the French magazine Pour Vous dated December 19, 1935.