1930's / 1940's DISNEY ANIMATOR T. HEE NEW YEAR CARD SKETCH & AMAZING LIST

Description

Up for auction is a draft drawing by T. Hee of his New Years Card for sometime in the 1930's or 1940's, together with a list of the recipients.  Everything is in T. Hee's hand writing and includes his signature.
The drawing depicts a self portrait of T. Hee giving a young women who is asking for money a bill.  In the 1930's / 1940's, it would have been a most pleasant surprise for someone asking for money to receive more then a few cents at a time.  The card was to state "May the new year bring you many pleasant surprises. T. Hee".
The list of recipients is a who's who of animation in the 1930's and 1940's and other celebrities and includes:
Jack Kinney
Ward Kimball
Marc Davis
Frank Thomas
Ollie Johnson
Fred Knoop
Herb Ryman
Duke Ellington
Doc Seuss
Thornton Francis "T." Hee was an American animator, director, and teacher. He taught character design and caricature. He is always credited as T. Hee.
Hee worked at Leon Schlesinger Productions from 1935-36 as a character designer. He designed many of the celebrity caricatures used in The Coo Coo Nut Grove (1936) and The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos (1937). A 1936 Christmas card that he drew, featuring caricatures of the Schlesinger animators, was used to design the gremlins in the 1944 animated short, Russian Rhapsody.
Hee joined the Walt Disney Company around 1937. He is most recognized for directing the Dance of the Hours segment of Fantasia. He left after the strike, but returned to work there twice, from 1940 to 1946, and again from 1958 to 1961. Hee also worked for United Productions of America (1951 to 1958) and Terrytoons (1961 to 1963).
Hee was one of the co-founders, along with Jack Hannah, of the Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts. He later served as chairman of the Film Arts Department.
Hee provided the illustrations used during the opening credits of The Life of Riley television show of the 1950s.
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