Herbert Ryman(1910-1989)
- Animation Department
- Art Department
- Art Director
Herbert "Herb" Dickens Ryman was an artist who worked in watercolor,
oils, and pen & ink sketches. He was a personal friend of Walt Disney
and was called upon to help the Walt Disney Studios on many special
projects over a five decade span. Ryman went to work for Disney in 1938
when such full-length animated films as Pinocchio, Dumbo, Fantasia and
others were in the planning stages. On September 23, 1953, upon the
personal request of Walt Disney, Mr. Ryman completed several drawings
which Roy O. Disney (Walt's Brother) took to New York to show the
bankers in order to secure the loan for the original $17 million used
to build Disneyland. He also help design many major pictures for
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and 20th Century Fox during Hollywood's "golden
age." He was a major contributor to the screen styling of David
Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, Anna Karenina and "Mutiny on the
Bounty. He graduated cum laude in 1932 from the Chicago Art
Institute.
