Walt Disney
Miguel Covarrubias, 1937
Gouache.
"Walt Disney has made a brilliant acting unit out of about as irresponsible, undependable, unstable a crew as ever trod the boards," claimed the text accompanying this Vogue caricature, June 15, 1937. A short time later, Disney released the first full-length animation, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.

Sylvia Navarrete, Miguel Covarrubias: Artista y Explorador.
Mexico: Dirección General de Publicaciones del Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 1993

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