Japanese watercolors

Found these in a stationary store in Japantown, San Francisco

"Plovers" Shoko Uemura 1976

"Fawn," Shoko Kawasaki 1943

"Green Pond" Seiho Takeuchi, Early period Showa

Tsurutaro Kataoka, 1998

"Snow in Morning" Goun Nishimura 1922-25

Eyvind Earle

 I wish there were more books of Evyind Earle's art out there- everything's out of print! 

He was the art director for Disney's Sleeping Beauty, but also an accomplished mid-century artist/ illustrator.

Here's an interesting article about his work at Disney- apparently he wasn't so liked by the 9 Old Men, but Disney had faith in Earle's unusual and striking production design.

Kay Nielsen

Kay Nielsen is another Golden Age Illustrator who did gorgeous fairy tale illustrations in the first part of the 20th century.

I love his drawings for a lot of the same reasons that I like Dulac (content, colors, and Art Nouveau style), but Nielsen brings in a slightly more Asian aesthetic- he was apparently influenced by Japanese woodprints and Hiroshige.

Asifa-Hollywood archives has some great scans of a variety of his work
Twelve Dancing Princesses
East of the Sun West of the Moon
Hansel and Gretel