- Vintage Disneyland Art Corner Original Production Cel Merryweather Sleeping Beauty
- Merriweather is cut out and imposed on a printed cottage background
- Back of piece reads: This is an Original Handpainted Celluloid Drawing Actually Used In a Walt Disney Production, Released Exclusively by the Art Corner of Disneyland, Anaheim, California, Copyright Walk Disney Productions.
- Measures about 14 x 12" including the matte
- Pre-owned, good condition, original matte browned with age, cel appears fresh, the original masking tape attaching the backing is pulling up on one of the short ends
- Item location: Back warehouse, Right, Upper Art Bay
From a page I wrote in the Worthpoint Dictionary: "When Disneyland opened in the 1950s, Disney found another opportunity to
market production cels. In 1955, Disney sold original cels at the Art
Corner in Disneyland. When the Art Corner closed, Disney sold cels at
the Main Street Emporium into the late 1960s but stopped for a short
period. Disneyland again started offering cels for sale in 1973.
Beginning in the 1980s forward, Disney and other animation studios began
to license selling rights to various art dealers and stores. They sold
the framed cels as ready-made art pieces."
This cel is from the Art Corner period, 1955 to 1965.