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Joshua Meador was born in Greenwood, Mississippi and graduated from the
Art Institute of Chicago. In 1935 he moved to California where until
the 1960s he lived in La Crescenta and then moved to Casper in Northern
California where he died on August 24, 1964.
During his career as a painter, animator, and
special effects director at Walt Disney Productions he worked on many
films, including Snow White, Bambi, Fantasia, Pinocchio, The Absent Minded
Professor (1961), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Forbidden Planet.
Meador focused his talent on fine-art painting in
his spare time, and in 1946, began exhibiting his paintings. Meador
used a palette knife for many of his paintings often depicting the
Mendocino Coast in Northern California.
After Meador's death, there were memorial one-man shows
at Barnsdall Park in Los Angeles and Conacher Galleries in San Francisco.
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