American
1952
Oil on Masonite
Height 27 1/2" (69.9 cm) x Width 33 1/2" (85.1 cm) framed
Provenance: Private collection, Southern California
Irv Wyner (1904–2002) was a background artist who spent the core of his career at Warner Bros. working in Friz Freleng's unit on the Looney Tunes animated shorts, with his first credited work on the 1952 short Gift Wrapped, a Sylvester and Tweety cartoon. He remained with Freleng's unit until 1957 and subsequently worked for Disney, Walter Lantz, and Chuck Jones's Sib Tower 12, contributing backgrounds to productions including The Phantom Tollbooth, Horton Hears a Who!, and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. This oil on Masonite, painted in 1952 at the height of his Warner Bros. years, demonstrates the polished spatial composition and tonal control that made background artists of his generation indispensable to American animation.
The painting depicts a red dairy barn and grain silo set in a lush summer landscape, with mountains visible in the distance under a luminous sky and trees framing the scene on both sides. The composition has the structured, cinematic quality of a professional background layout, the barn rendered with precise architectural detail and the surrounding fields in smoothly graded greens. The work comes from a private collection in Southern California and is presented in its original frame.
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American
1952
Oil on Masonite
Height 27 1/2" (69.9 cm) x Width 33 1/2" (85.1 cm) framed
Provenance: Private collection, Southern California
Irv Wyner (1904–2002) was a background artist who spent the core of his career at Warner Bros. working in Friz Freleng's unit on the Looney Tunes animated shorts, with his first credited work on the 1952 short Gift Wrapped, a Sylvester and Tweety cartoon. He remained with Freleng's unit until 1957 and subsequently worked for Disney, Walter Lantz, and Chuck Jones's Sib Tower 12, contributing backgrounds to productions including The Phantom Tollbooth, Horton Hears a Who!, and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. This oil on Masonite, painted in 1952 at the height of his Warner Bros. years, demonstrates the polished spatial composition and tonal control that made background artists of his generation indispensable to American animation.
The painting depicts a red dairy barn and grain silo set in a lush summer landscape, with mountains visible in the distance under a luminous sky and trees framing the scene on both sides. The composition has the structured, cinematic quality of a professional background layout, the barn rendered with precise architectural detail and the surrounding fields in smoothly graded greens. The work comes from a private collection in Southern California and is presented in its original frame.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
