Who is this Disney Studio artist?

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My mother, who has passed, retired from Walt Disney Studios after 35 years. She worked in the Ink and Paint Building from 1967 on. She would buy paintings from the periodic Art displays they held at the studio lot. All of the paintings she has have the artists name clearly painted on the front. This large watercolor and acrylic painting has no discernable name anywhere front, back or side. It appears to be some sort of montage like a story board. It is pen and ink with color added in. The theme appears to be a 19th century household in disarray. I love it for many reasons, color, action and expressiveness.
Does anyone recognize the artist or even the theme? Thank you.

http://i1297.photobucket.com/albums/ag21/Tulsa-Tom/Art/photo1_zps6d7e1d48.jpg

http://i1297.photobucket.com/albums/ag21/Tulsa-Tom/Art/photo3_zps7d7ccab1.jpg

http://s1297.photobucket.com/user/Tulsa-Tom/media/Art/photo2_zps2e732373.jpg.html

http://i1297.photobucket.com/albums/ag21/Tulsa-Tom/Art/photo4_zpsac324665.jpg

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@DarkCrow,

I think you are right that its a story bord montage thts been used to summarize or "Pitch' a story.
The work is predominantly opaque projector based (today itd be a photocropped and edited study)

It seems to be about a spiritualist who can see several(future?) events in that household. Im thinking maybe its something that surrounds the civil war?

If the idea didn't sell, the pitch gets saved or tossed or filed for future sale. (sometimes a pitch campaign also comes associated with someone previously buying the rights of the story surrounding the sketches)

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@DarkCrow,

My aunt and uncle met there, in the thirties. I think he became the treasurer.
I remember my aunt, years later, wishing she'd snagged stuff from the waste baskets.

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Testing to see if we can move the images here and see them all together...

http://i1297.photobucket.com/albums/ag21/Tulsa-Tom/Art/photo1_zps6d7e1d48.jpg

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@DarkCrow,

Yay! It worked! Here are the others. Since most Disney movies were based on fables maybe someone will recognize the story:

http://i1297.photobucket.com/albums/ag21/Tulsa-Tom/Art/photo3_zps7d7ccab1.jpg

http://s1297.photobucket.com/user/Tulsa-Tom/media/Art/photo2_zps2e732373.jpg.html

http://i1297.photobucket.com/albums/ag21/Tulsa-Tom/Art/photo4_zpsac324665.jpg

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@boomerang,

Thanks Boomer-ang...as in Boomer Sooner? Go OU

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@farmerman,

Interesting ...Civil War. Had not thought about that setting.

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@ossobuco,

If so, my dad knew him. My Dad was there from the 50s to 63ish in Accounting. My Dad help start the Disney Credit Union (Partners CU now) in about circa 1957.

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@DarkCrow,

My mom and dad were both Sooners and I spent some parts of my life in Oklahoma. I noticed that you're in Tulsa -- the only city in Oklahoma worth living in. I graduated from Booker T. many, many years ago!

How are things in T-town?

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@boomerang,

Tulsa is humming along. The Big Little Town that it is. Murder rate is up, Meth arrests are up, Home Invasions are up. But the traffic is Nil! LOL

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@DarkCrow,

I miss the no traffic of Tulsa.

We used to ride our bikes downtown on the weekends and it was like we owned the place. If we had a couple of bucks in our pockets we'd hit the Coney Islander, sneak onto the roof of the Mayo hotel and feel like kings.

Ahhh Tulsa. Good times.

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@boomerang,

I once stayed in one of the upper rooms of a downtown hotel when an F-1 came through and I was watching it from my big glass window. REALLY STUPID idea.
I remember having some really good frog legs . Also, some of the best beef barbecue ribs were served at a joint near Ada.
Them ribs were truly memorable. They didn't screw it up with any ketchup -like sauce that I got further south (below the ARbuckles)

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@farmerman,

LOL I love to chase them myself. Really stupid because HAIL seems to find my vehicle also.

I love Dry Rub ribs myself. Mmmmm...lunch time!

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