Summer - Limited Edition Giclée on Canvas by Peter Ellenshaw (1913-2007) and Harrison Ellenshaw

Summer by Peter Ellenshaw (1913-2007) and Harrison Ellenshaw is a Limited Edition Fine Art Giclée Print on Stretched Canvas Numbered in Sequence at 27 out of a total Edition Size of only 475 Hand Signed by both Artists. This piece is licensed by Disney Fine Art and includes a Certificate of Authenticity. Measures approx. 24" x 30" (Image). ** Please note: there is minor wear at the corners and edges that should be concealed once framed. ** Gallery List Price: $1,200.00 USD.

Peter Ellenshaw, whose artistic career spanned more than six decades, was a renowned landscape artist, motion picture art director, and Academy Award winner. His professional collaboration and friendship with Walt Disney would span over 30 years and 34 films starting in 1953 with “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” for which Peter Ellenshaw created several matte paintings of Capt. Nemo’s secret island base of Vulcania. He went on to do matte paintings and other special effects for more than 30 other Disney films, including “The Absent Minded Professor,” “Pollyanna,” “Swiss Family Robinson,” “The Happiest Millionaire,” “The Love Bug” and “The Black Hole.” Peter Ellenshaw also did matte paintings for Disney TV fare, such as “Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier,” “Zorro” and “Texas John Slaughter.”

Harrison Ellenshaw is an American matte painter, following in his British father Peter Ellenshaw's footsteps.  He started his career at Walt Disney Studios. He later joined George Lucas's effects studio Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), where he produced many of the matte visual effects backgrounds for the films Star Wars (1977) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980). Harrison Ellenshaw then returned to Disney and worked on the 1979 film The Black Hole, for which he and his father were nominated for an Academy Award for their work. He also worked on The Watcher in the Woods (1980), and Tron (1982), for which he was Visual Effects Supervisor, and Dick Tracy (1990). Harrison Ellenshaw eventually headed Disney Studio's effects department, Buena Vista Visual Effects