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Written by Baani Singh, CNN
Google celebrated the 108th anniversary of the birth of noted Chinese-American artist and illustrator Tyrus Wong Thursday by featuring him in the search engine’s daily Google Doodle.
Wong was born in China in 1910 and moved to the United States when he was around eight-years-old.
Though he was a prolific artist and painter, he is best known for working as an animator and illustrator on the 1942 Disney movie “Bambi.” The animated film influenced and shaped global opinion around the medium and led to hit Disney movies “The Jungle Book” and “The Lion King.”
Wong’s lush painted backgrounds for “Bambi” were inspired by Song dynasty-era clbadical Chinese art.
Wong was a lithographer, sketch artist, muralist, calligrapher, ceramist and kite maker. His paintings, typically watercolors splashed together on canvas, hang in numerous museums including the Art Institute of Chicago.
However, despite his reputation today, Wong’s influence on American art was not acknowledged until much later in life — an oversight some observers have put down to racial prejudices within the community at the time.
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Time capsule: Larry Syverson, 69, recently rediscovered his photographs of a trip to Disneyland that he took in 1969 while he was in college with his future wife Judy. Credit: Courtesy Larry Syverson
In 2001 however, Wong was named a Disney Legend for outstanding achievement to animated media. In 2013, Disney released a retrospective “Water to Paper, Paint to Sky,” at the family museum in San Francisco, and two years later Wong was presented the San Diego Asian Film Festival (SDAFF) award for lifetime achievement.
Wong pbaded away in 2016, practicing his art until the day he died.
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