The last project Mary Blair completed for Walt Disney Studios was a 90’ mural at Walt Disney World’s Contemporary Resort Hotel. Serigraphs were made of images featured on the mural and displayed throughout the Hotel. There was a period of time that Blair took a Teller storefront windows on New York City’s break from Disney and built a successful career 5th Avenue, illustrations for greeting cards, and as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator. advertisements for Johnson & Johnson, Maxwell She found herself providing the illustrations for a House Coffee, and Nabisco. number of Little Golden Books, including I Can Blair, who lived in Soquel, California, passed Fly which is still in print. Her images and designs away in 1978. She was married to fellow Disney also were incorporated by Lord & Taylor into artist Lee Blair and was the mother of two. scarves and dresses. She created designs Her work will continue to live on in the for Radio City Music Hall’s holiday memories of those that visit any Disney spectaculars and television commercials theme park/resort or enjoy story time for products including toothpaste and with a Little Golden Book. ice cream, paper sculptures for Bonwit Mary Blair created illustrations for a number of Little Golden Books, including I Can Fly that is still in print. 41 35 4141