Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Fred Brunish

Here's some screenshots of one my favorite background artists, Fred Brunish. He worked at Walter Lantz Studios from 1946 until 1952. He passed away on June 25, 1952 from cirrhosis of the liver at age 49. His bright, colorful paintings for Dick Lundy's cartoons are welcome contrast compared to Shamus Culhane's cartoons. Many of which contain flat colors and even colored paper backgrounds (though I think they make his cartoons look very unique.) In addition to painting great cartoon backgrounds Fred was also a California landscape painter. The last two pics are of a couple of his landscape paintings. I wish I had better quality pics to share, when that Woody set comes out be sure that I'll be doing another post of his great backgrounds.

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4 comments:

  1. Mike Matei2/05/2007 1:45 AM

    those are pretty coll backgrounds

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  2. JohnK2/07/2007 1:27 AM

    Hey Kevin

    I love Fred Brunish's backgrounds too!

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  3. Kevin Langley2/07/2007 10:10 PM

    Cool, I'm glad someone else does too. I remember you saying Dick Lundy and LaVerne Harding are a couple of your influences, are you a fan of his Lantz shorts or more his Donald animation?

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  4. :: smo ::2/10/2007 8:02 PM

    these are really great! when i was growing up all the lantz cartoons i'd see were cruddy VHS transfers so i was never really able to see how things actually looked! thanks for sharin!

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