| LC control no. | n 50007776 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Payzant, Charles, 1898-1980 |
| Located | Los Angeles (Calif.) |
| Birth date | 1898 |
| Death date | 1980 |
| Place of birth | Halifax (N.S.) |
| Field of activity | Watercolor painting |
| Affiliation | Victoria School of Art (Halifax, N.S.) Otis Art Institute Chouinard Art Institute (Los Angeles, Calif.) Walt Disney Productions |
| Profession or occupation | Watercolor painter Illustrator Freelance commercial artist |
| Found in | His Moko, the circus monkey, ©1952 : title page (by Charles Payzant) Shannon, T. Red is for luck, ©1963 : title page (illustrated by Charles Payzant) California Watercolor, WWW site, July 8, 2014 (Charles Payzant (1898-1980); born: Halifax, Canada; studied: Victoria School of Art (Halifax, Canada), Chouinard Art Institute (Los Angeles), Otis Art Institute (Los Angeles); member: American Watercolor Society, California Water Color Society. St. George Charles Payzant, as his birth certificate reads, was born and raised in Nova Scotia, Canada. After serving with the 193rd Nova Scotia Highlanders and the Royal Flying Corps in World War I, he received art instruction in England and Canada. In the early 1920s, he moved to Los Angeles and continued his art education at the Otis Art Institute and Chouinard Art Institute. By the mid-1920s, he was a freelance commercial artist, producing illustrations in watercolor and line art. Payzant also began producing fine art watercolors painted on location around Los Angeles. In 1934, he took a job painting watercolor backgrounds for the Walt Disney Studios. He produced art for many cartoon shorts and did elaborate backgrounds for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, Make Mine Music, Bambi and The Three Caballeros; after the World War II era, he left Disney to again pursue a freelance commercial art business. He began working with his wife, Terry Shannon [pseudonym] Payzant, on a series of over fifty childrens books; she wrote the text and he did the illustrations. In addition, he became the director of the Dick and Jane series of school readers which contained over 6,000 pictures) <http://www.californiawatercolor.com/pages/charles-payzant-biography> |
| Associated language | eng |
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