A designer, painter and illustrator, Eyvind Earle is noted for backgrounds he created for Disney classic films such as Sleeping Beauty and Lady and the Tramp. He also designed popular greeting cards that utilized more than 500 of his paintings. In 1961, he established his own animation company, and continuously painted landscapes in oil and acrylic, using acrylic before 1971 and oil after that. His most famous paintings are of California mountains and valleys of western Canada.

He was born in New York City to parents who separated. At age ten, he was kidnapped by his father, artist and movie director Ferdinand Earle, and for the next four years, they traveled and painted around the world ...