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Tag: Alice in Wonderland

  • Uglification

    The Mock Turtle’s Story, 1907 illustrations by Arthur Rackham for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

    …They had not gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle in the distance, sitting sad and lonely on a little ledge of rock, and, as they came nearer, Alice could hear him sighing as if his heart would break. She pitied him deeply. “What is his sorrow?” she asked the Gryphon, and the Gryphon answered, “very nearly in the same words as before, It’s all his fancy, that: he hasn’t got no sorrow, you know. Come on!”….

  • You Know the Work, Now Meet the Woman

    Mary Blair conceptual drawing for Disney’s Alice in Wonderland.

    Mary Blair was one of the most important artists to work at Disney and yet most know her work, but not her name. She brought that iconic mid-century style to such work as Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Cinderella and she did set designs for Small World and Tomorrowland at Disneyland.

    Article about Blair from OrangeReview.com.