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Walt Disney and art: pictures from a new exhibition at the Met.

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Slate has relationships with various online retailers. If you buy something through our links, Slate may earn an affiliate commission. We update links when possible, but note that deals can expire and all prices are subject to change. All prices were up to date at the time of publication. Excerpted from “Inspiring Walt Disney” in Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts by Wolf Burchard. Originally published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Copyright © 2021. Reprinted by permission. This catalog is published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, through March 6, 2022. The exhibition will travel to the Wallace Collection, London, in 2022. In 1938, Walt Disney presented the Met with a gouache on celluloid from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs depicting two avid-eyed vultures awaiting the animated feature’s denouement, the moment when the evil queen falls down a cliff and presumably dies. Wh

Left: clock with pedestal, ca. 1690. Case attributed to André Charles Boulle, after a design by Jean Berain. Clock by Jacques III Thuret or more likely his father, Isaac II Thuret. Right: concept art for Beauty and the Beast , 1991, by Peter J. Hall. Photo illustration by Slate. Images by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1958 (58.53a–c) and Walt Disney Animation Research Library © Disney. Copy Link Share Share Comment Copy Link Share Share Comment Slate has relationships with various online retailers. If you buy something through our links, Slate may earn an affiliate com

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