£45
Harold Whitaker (Local Artist, 1920-2013) - Two military watercolour and pencil illustrations on paper, unsigned, one framed: 54 x 44 cm (2)
Harold Whitaker was an illustrator and animator for Disney, Halas & Bachelor and James Howarth and Brother. Whitaker worked on animated films including 'Automania 2000' (1963) (earning that film an Oscar nomination for best animated short) and 'Animal Farm' (1954) capturing the drunken brutishness of George Orwell's Farmer Jones in Britain's first animated feature film. Whitaker left for World War II in February 1941 and returned in 1946. During this time he produced a number of paintings and illustrations of the war. He moved from London to Stroud to continue working with Anson Dyer as a background Artist. Dyer's studio was being used by the Ministry of Defence to make aircraft recognition and gunner training films and moved to Stroud to escape the blitz.
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