Bernard Garbutt
Date of Birth:
Aug 25, 1901
Place of Birth:
California, USA
Date of Birth:
Aug 25, 1901
Place of Birth:
California, USA
Biography:
Bernard Garbutt was born in Southern California and grew up in the Los Angeles area. After finishing high school he was hired as a staff artist for the Los Angeles Times to cover country fairs, horse races and farming events to produce drawings for the Sunday supplements. Bernard Garbutt was an extremely versatile artist. He wrote and illustrated a number of children’s books, Including Timothy the Deer. The Walt Disney Studio hired him to work on the animated film productions of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Bambi. During WWII he was an artist for Screen Gems Productions in Hollywood and during the 1950s and 1960s, he taught at the Chouinard Art Institute. -http://www.californiawatercolor.com/pages/bernard-garbutt-biography