Coastal Landscapes Notecard Folio

California landscape artist Eyvind Earle (1916–2000) began painting at age ten and was hired by United Artists as an assistant sketch artist while still in his teens. By the early 1950s he was working as a background painter for Walt Disney Studios, where he contributed to the classic animated feature films Sleeping Beauty and Lady and the Tramp. Concurrently with his work in film and, later, in television and in book and magazine illustration, he was achieving ever greater recognition for his personal work in fine art. From his first New York City solo show in 1938 until his death, Earle exhibited regularly at prestigious galleries and museums across the United States.

Earle’s earliest paintings were strictly realistic, but at twenty-one, after studying the work of a variety of masters, he came into his own unique style characterized by simplicity, directness, and surety of handling. Over his long, prolific career, Earle received numerous awards and accolades, including the prestigious International Animated Film Society’s Winsor McCay Award for lifetime contribution to the art of animation, presented in 1998 for his work in Sleeping Beauty. In 2008 he was posthumously inducted into the Artexpo Hall of Fame in New York. The New York World-Telegram lauded his paintings’ “poetry and imagination and extraordinary delicacy in tone and brush”; the New York Times noted his “glimpses of the American scene [represented] with direct, lyric ardor”; and Time magazine described his landscapes as “remarkable for their suggestion of distances, landmasses, and weather moods.”

After seven decades of painting, Earle wrote in 1996, “I’m constantly and everlastingly overwhelmed at the stupendous infinity of Nature. Wherever I turn and look, there I see creation. Art is creating . . . Art is the search for truth.”

Contains five each of the following two notecards: Mystical Coastline and Big Sur by Eyvind Earle. Click on the small picture to see the cards.