Learn how he overcame poverty and racism to become a celebrated painter who once exhibited with Picasso and Matisse, a Hollywood sketch artist, and a “Disney Legend” the quiet beauty of his Eastern-influenced paintings caught the eye of Walt Disney, who made Wong the inspirational sketch artist for Bambi. It can now be streamed here>īorn in Canton (now Guangzhou), China, right before the fall of the Chinese Empire, Wong and his father immigrated to America in 1919, never to see their family again. Until his death at the age of 106, Tyrus Wong (1910-2016) was America’s oldest living Chinese-American artist and one of the last remaining artists from the golden age of Disney animation.įilmmaker Pamela Tom corrects a historical wrong by spotlighting this seminal, but heretofore under-credited, figure in American Masters: Tyrus. The film premiered Friday, Septemon CPTV Spirit.
Even fewer are aware of this pioneering artist’s impact on American art and popular culture.
People worldwide have seen the Disney animated classic Bambi, but few can name the artist behind the film.
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