TAKE HOME A LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED PRINT BY DISNEY LEGEND AND ARTIST PETER ELLENSHAW

Win One (1) limited edition, signed print by Disney Legend and artist Peter Ellenshaw.

Desert Stream

Signed by Artist

Limited Edition 351/450 Print

18" x 29"

Unframed

Peter Ellenshaw (1913-2007)

Peter Ellenshaw was an English matte artist who gained notoriety for his background painting and special effects work in a number of Disney films. Ellenshaw began his career as an apprentice special effects artist, where he learned to create matte backgrounds for films by painting glass. After serving in WWI as an RAF pilot, he moved to California to work for MGM. In 1948, Walt Disney personally reached out to Ellenshaw to paint the matte background scene of England for the live-action film Treasure Island (1950). After completing the film, Ellenshaw continued to work with Disney Studios for over 30 years, working on 34 feature films as well as several television shows. After 1979's The Black Hole, he left his film career to focus on fine art. His landscape and seascape scenes, drawing inspiration for the nature of Southern California, were shown in public and private galleries.

Ellenshaw's foremost contribution to Disney was his work on Mary Poppins, which earned him an Academy Award in special effects in 1964. He was also nominated for his work on Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), The Island at the Top of the Wall (1971), and The Black Hole. He is also known for painting concept art of Disneyland, and along with Herbert Ryman and John Hench, Ellenshaw's name is featured on a window of Main Street, USA in honor of his contributions to the realization of the park. In 1993 Ellenshaw was named a Disney Legend.

The Academy Museum will be showcasing Peter Ellenshaw's detailed portrayal of ancient Rome, used in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus (1960). Now more than 60 years old, the painting, one of cinema's most impressive examples of matte painting, serves as a critical artifact and masterful example of a meticulous artform.

Disney Artists and Friends Limited Edition Fine Art Prints

For about a dozen years beginning in the late 1960s, a group of Disney designers and their spouses headed originally by Richard Irvine and his wife Ann, raised scholarship funds for art students. A yearly art exhibit and sale was held; the very first show, featuring the work of Herb Ryman, was held at the Hancock Park home of Disney Legend Harrison "Buzz" Price and his wife, Anne Price. Each year, an artist's work was reproduced for the event. The prints shown below are the very prints from those DAFCA (Disney Artists & Friends of CalArts) shows. Now, these prints (with original signatures by the artists) are available for sale to the public, many for the first time.

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