today marks mary blair's 100th birthday. with all of the hoopla surrounding this special day i thought it might be a good time to reblog some images that i originally posted in 2006 and 2007. enjoy!
mary blair for franciscan tile wall 1967
franciscan employed many studio potters and illustrators as designers. pictured here is a mural designed by mary blair that was installed at a children's hospital in los angeles.
(from the june 1967 "francisican terra-wall" catalog)
mary blair tomorrowland tile mural, 1967
mary blair did alot of amazing work for disney. shown here is the tile mural she designed for tomorrowland in 1967. that's her (blond in the floral blouse) working on the drawings. mary worked with the interpace tile division of fransican ceramics to produce this masterpiece.
sadly this mural not longer exists. while it's not my place to judge their business decisions, it's too bad we can't visit this in person today and marvel at it's beauty.
(from a franciscan studio ceramics/interpace tile salesman's notebook insert, july 1967)
Mary Blair was such a huge talent. I've always loved the mural for the children's hospital (have only seen images of it).
Posted by: janis - pinecone camp | February 22, 2012 at 06:55 AM