Tyrus Wong, the artist whose paintings became a visual inspiration for Disney’s animated classic Bambi, died Friday. He was 106. Wong’s death was announced on his Facebook page, saying, “With heavy ...

Tyrus Wong, best known for his sketches for the Walt Disney animated feature “Bambi”, died Friday, according to a statement released by The Walt Disney Family Museum. Wong was 106. “Legendary Disney ...

In the late 1930s, when few doors were open to the son of a poor Chinese immigrant, Tyrus Wong landed a job at Walt Disney’s studio as a lowly “in-betweener,” whose artwork filled the gaps between the ...

He was named a Disney Legend in 2001. 2016 isn’t done with us yet. Tyrus Wong, the artist who provided the visual inspiration for “Bambi,” died yesterday. Unlike some of the other celebrities who ...

Tyrus Wong, the Chinese-American artist who was the production designer of Disney’s classic feature Bambi (1942), passed away today at the age of 106. Codrick showed them to Walt Disney, who was ...

When Walt Disney’s “Bambi” opened in 1942, critics praised its spare, haunting visual style, vastly different from anything Disney had done before. But what they did not know was that the film’s ...

BAMBI, which celebrates its 75 th anniversary this year, joins the Collection on Blu-ray, DVD and On-Demand on June 6. The Collection release includes a variety of new bonus material, including ...

UPDATE with Art Directors Guild statement: Tyrus Wong, the artist whose spec drawings of a deer in the forest famously became the inspiration for the look of Disney‘s Bambi, has died. He was 106. The ...