Students at the Bridge
Artist
Retta Scott
(1916 - 1990)
Date1930s
MediumWatercolor
Dimensions14 3/4 x 21 3/4 in. (37.5 x 55.2 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineGift of the Hilbert Collection
Object number2021.048
DescriptionThe Walt Disney Studios hired Retta Scott immediately after she completed her studies at Chouinard Art Institute in L.A. in 1939 – and this painting was probably completed while she was a student there, portraying her fellow art students on a plein-air painting location in Pasadena. As the rare woman in the nearly all-male ranks of Disney animators, Scott was often the target of good-natured jokes from her colleagues – once they snuck into her office and decorated it with overly feminine ruffled curtains and cushions. But Retta just laughed at their antics, and, according to Disney expert Mindy Johnson, “Rett often completed her work better and faster than any of the men.” She particularly excelled at drawing animals, and her most famous Disney sequence was the vivid and frightening hunting-dog attack on Faline in Bambi. On View
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