About Hubert Buel

  • Biography

    From Sacramento, Hubert Buel had a successful career as an animator for Walt Disney, teacher at Long Beach College, and with the San Francisco Chronicle, which he joined in 1938 and after World War II, served as Art Director. His amusing illustration, The Wonderful World of Animals, was nationally syndicated.

    As a fine-art painter, he had a specialty of watercolor, and he won his first painting award at age nine at the Fresno County Fair. He graduated from UCLA and did post-graduate work at UC-Berkeley, Mills College, University of Southern California, and Fresno State College.

    On Chronicle assignments, he painted throughout the United States, Europe, and in the Pacific, he did a series ...

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