Joshua Meador & Selected California Artists of the Film Industry

Jon Blanchette (Fox) 1908 - 1987 ... worked for Fox designing sets in New York and Hollywood
Three boats	Watsonville Slough	Mendocino House
Fishing boat in inner bay	"Mendocino Church"	Coast on a winter's day

Bennett Schroeder Bradbury (Disney) 1914 - 1991 ... worked for a time at Disney before dedicating himself to his art full time.
"Beach Sentinels"	"Dusk, China Cove Pt. Lobos"	"Laguna Coastline"
Pacific Sunset	Seacoast	Pacific Cove

After Sailing	Philip Latimer Dike (Disney) 1906 - 1990 ... as a teacher at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, Phil Dike was contracted to teach advanced drawing and composition at Disney.
	Urban Shore

Jan Marinus Domela (Paramount) 1894 - 1973 ... worked 40 years at Paramount, winning two Oscars and designing their mountain logo.
Point Lobos, Carmel , California 1959	"Tracks in the Snow"

Ralph Hulett (Disney) 1915 - 1974
Ralph was a Chouinard Art Institute graduate and student of Phil Dike and Millard Sheets. Today is considered one of the California regionalists, and recently his works were exhibited with Emil Kosa Jr. At Disney, he was involved in animation and color styling. Ralph and his family were close friends with Joshua Meador and accompanied him on several painting trips.

The Open Gate

Ralph Hulett Fishing from a Beach Midsized Thumbnail

Shoreline Cliffs

Orpha Mae Klinker 1891 - 1964
Valley Oaks and Mountain	Etching, "Winter Touches the Desert"	Goats, Chavez Ravine

Charles F. Keck (Columbia) 1913 - 2003	Harold Charles Landaker (MGM) 1892 - 1966	Charles Wesley Nicholson 1886 - 1965
Hillside Farmstead	"The Herdsman"	Mission San Juan Capistrano

More about Joshua Meador

During his time away from the studio, Josh would pack up the family station wagon, and together with his wife Libby and son Philip, pulled a teardrop trailer throughout California, painting as they went. Josh's favorite medium was the palette knife. His son Philip recalls his father kept some brushes around just to sign his work. Toward the end of his career, he remained under contract with Disney while he maintained studios and galleries in Carmel Highlands and later in Caspar just north of Mendocino.

Joshua can be seen explaining his painting technique on film. Josh participated in a short feature created for Walt Disney's television show in 1958 and it is entitled "Four Artists Paint One Tree." Walt Disney introduces and narrates as the four artists, Eyvind Earle, Marc Davis, Walt

Four Artists Paint One Tree Joshua Meador, Marc Davis, Eyvind Earle, and Walt Paragoy

"Four Artists Paint One Tree"
from left, Joshua Meador, Marc Davis, Eyvind Earle, and Walt Paragoy

Paragoy and Joshua Meador paint a California live oak tree using four different artistic styles.

Joshua is a native of Columbus, Mississippi. He is being honored this fall as one of the town's favorite sons, along with fellow native, playwright Tennessee Williams. Link

Josh is but one of the many skilled and talented painters attracted to California by the film industry. Fortunately for California, theses artists have left an artistic legacy well beyond their work in film.

Back to Joshua Meador's Paintings

Bodega Bay Heritage Gallery, Exhibition September and October, 2009
Josh, a Self Portrait	Joshua Meador 1911-1965 and selected artists of California's Film Industry
	At his Disney "day job" Click here and read more about Josh	On his own time with his ever present sketch pad

The Last Symphony Meador family collection, done in honor of Salvador Dali's his visit to Disney in 1947	Joshua Meador (Disney) 1911 - 1965 You've seen Joshua Meador's work before, in all the Disney classics in which he was privileged to participate. Josh began at Disney in the midst of the Great Depression soon after he had graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago. He became Disney's director of special effects, and was part of the special effects team which won an Oscar for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. click to read more below
"Warming in the Sun" Meador family collection	Pacific Cove	"Glacier"
"Mission"	"Rainy Day"	"To Water"
"Riverbed" Disney Collection courtesy of the Meador family	Almond Alley Meador family collection	Bird Haven Meador family collection
Duncans Mills, circa late 1940's	"Palm Spring" Disney Collection courtesy of the Meador family	Granville Redmond House Meador family collection
Desert Landscape Meador family collection	"Pier at Montrey"	"Hill Village" 1951
"A Clear Crispy Day"	Strolling in the Park Meador family collection	Newport Harbor Oregon Meador family collection
De Regreso SOLD	The Old Pasture Meador family collection	Green Hill Meador family collection
Sierra Cabin Bishop	"El Patio de San Miguel" Meador family collection	"Bodega Pier" Bodega Bay Meador family collection
Sandpipers	"Quaking Aspens"	Estuary Seabirds
Oatman Mine Arizona SOLD Meador family collection	Coastal Rocks and Crashing Waves SOLD	De Regresso SOLD
"Remote" SOLD		Rainy Windy Day SOLD

Joshua Meador Paintings in the family collection not currently on exhibit They available for sale except where noted.
"Cloud Patterns" Disney Collection unavailable for sale	"Cliff Shapes" courtesy of the Meador family	"Mood Indigo" Disney Collection courtesy of the Meador family
"Caspar Point" (N of Mendocino) courtesy of the Meador family	"Sheep Ranch" Mendocino courtesy of the Meador family unavailable for sale	"Colts"
"Pow Wow" Disney Collection courtesy of the Meador family	"Andreas Canyon" Palm Springs, Disney Collection courtesy of the Meador family	"Far Beyond" Disney Collection courtesy of the Meador family
"Backlight" courtesy of the Meador family unavailable for sale	"Sea of Sand"	"The Golden Day"