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Mary Blair

1911 - 1978

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Mary Blair (born Mary Browne Robinson; October 21, 1911 – July 26, 1978) was an American artist, animator, and designer. She was prominent in producing art and animation for The Walt Disney Company, drawing concept art for such films as Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Song of the South and Cinderella. Blair also created character designs for enduring attractions such as Disneyland's It's a Small World, the fiesta scene in El Rio del Tiempo in the Mexico pavilion in Epcot's World Showcase, and an enormous mosaic inside Disney's Contemporary Resort. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Blair has received more than 540,841 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Mary Blair is the 73rd most popular artist (down from 60th in 2019), the 5,578th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,593rd in 2019) and the 15th most popular American Artist.

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  • 56.55

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  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARTISTS

Among artists, Mary Blair ranks 73 out of 125. Before her are Nikolay Shmatko, Wang Xianzhi, Luigi Serafini, Yoshitomo Nara, Gordon Matta-Clark, and Lado Gudiashvili. After her are Aleksandr Golovin, Heorhiy Narbut, Antonie Brentano, Annette Messager, Daniel Hopfer, and Bas Jan Ader.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Mary Blair ranks 207. Before her are Carl Keenan Seyfert, Gustav Wetterström, Kick Smit, Lee Falk, Maclyn McCarty, and Antonio Sastre. After her are Bel Kaufman, Masayuki Mori, Luise Rinser, Robert Marchand, Katherine DeMille, and Jesse Carver. Among people deceased in 1978, Mary Blair ranks 157. Before her are Zenta Mauriņa, Gordon Matta-Clark, Alfred Müller-Armack, Eric Frank Russell, Leigh Brackett, and Léon Damas. After her are Theodor Tolsdorff, Duncan Grant, Paul Yoshigoro Taguchi, Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev, Jorge Cafrune, and Abdylas Maldybaev.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mary Blair ranks 5,578 out of 20,380. Before her are George Bancroft (1882), Jude Ciccolella (1947), Thomas H. Ince (1880), Arthur Laffer (1940), Lori Singer (1957), and Charles Martin Smith (1953). After her are Alan Lomax (1915), Grace Sherwood (1660), Dennis Oppenheim (1938), Eric Adams (1960), Paul Butterfield (1942), and William H. Prescott (1796).

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Among ARTISTS In United States

Among artists born in United States, Mary Blair ranks 15. Before her are Judy Chicago (1939), James Montgomery Flagg (1877), Vito Acconci (1940), Robert Indiana (1928), Gilbert Baker (1951), and Gordon Matta-Clark (1943). After her are Dan Graham (1942), Carolee Schneemann (1939), Martha Rosler (1943), Maud Wagner (1877), Edward Kienholz (1927), and Red Skelton (1913).

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