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DISNEY STUDIOS Daisy Duck animation drawing and model sheet. Animation drawing and model sheet related to Mr. Duck Steps Out, 1940. First apperance of the modern Daisy Duck. Pen and pencil on paper. 10 x 12 inches (drawing); 11 x 14 inches (model sheet).
This lot includes a beautifully drawn Disney Studios animation rough of Daisy Duck and a photostat model sheet of Daisy and Donald related to the classic short Mr. Duck. Both pieces were acquired together, and apparently owned by Disney artist Howard Baldwin, who wrote his name and "Training" on the model sheet. Baldwin was employed at Disney from the early 1930s through early 1940s. Based on the model sheet note, it may be possible that he was responsible for training new animators during the production of Mr. Duck Steps Out.
The Daisy drawing is the work of a very skilled hand, and was drawn on the 5 hole punched paper in use at Disney in the late 1930s and early 1940s. The image does not directly match a scene in the film, but is clearly the Mr. Duck Steps Out Daisy design, and may have been for a scene that was dropped from the final short.The photostat model sheet is dated July 11th, 1938, and has the film's working title "Donald's Date." It features four poses of Daisy and one of a very dapper Donald as the duo appeared in the short. Photostat model sheets like this were made by the studio in small numbers and distributed to the artists to keep character appearances consistent.
Mr. Duck Steps Out marked the first appearance of the modern design of Daisy Duck (an earlier version of whom had appeared just once in the 1937 short Don Donald, as "Donna Duck"). Early Daisy Duck animation drawings are exceedingly scarce, and this is uniquely paired with the equally rare related studio model sheet, which may well have been the reference used when drawing it.
