Post #452691 by bigbrotiki on Sat, May 9, 2009 8:58 AM

It's always a joy to go up to the Forest Lawn Museum. Thursday was the opening of a nice show on the work of Marc Davis, one of Disney's original "nine old men".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney's_Nine_Old_Men

Marc designed not only most of the Pirates of the Carribean and Haunted Mansion rides, but also the interior of the Enchanted Tiki Room (while Rolly Crump designed the outside Tikis)

There are no sketches from the Tiki Room at the show, but his fine art is pure eye candy:

The one below is my personal favorite:

"Queequeg pursuing Moby Dick", 1957

It is available as a gyclee, but a whopping 1200.- bucks is a little too high for an unsigned (Marc died in 2000) print, in my humble opinion. But it is nice if it will benefit his wife Alice, who lent the pieces, and who was in attendance.

Here is some history on Marc and Alice:

Marc became an avid collector of Papua New Guinea art and they travelled to New Guinea several times.
Here is a story how his wife began working for Disney, designing the costumes for "It's a Small World":

They ate out a lot, and Marc painted this painting for one of his favorite restaurants, Alfonse's in Toluca Lake:

The four graces each carry a cocktail served at the restaurant.

Below is the link for opening times and duration:
http://www.forestlawn.com/Special-Events-And-Facilities/Event-Detail.asp?EventID=147