The Walt Disney Family MuseumThe Presidio

Awaking Beauty: The Art of Eyvind Earle

Now showing23 October 2026 – 18 April 2027$15

Around 200 works by Eyvind Earle, the color stylist behind Sleeping Beauty's jewel-toned look, from his Disney years to his fine art, with newly acquired pieces.

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More than 35 of the roughly 200 works here have never hung in the museum before. They are loans or recent acquisitions, and none were in its 2017 Eyvind Earle retrospective, which this show reworks with more art and two new galleries on the lower level.

Earle was the color stylist behind Sleeping Beauty (1959), and the show also covers his work on Lady and the Tramp, The Truth About Mother Goose and Paul Bunyan. It follows him out of the studio too, with paintings and serigraphs from his career as a fine artist and printmaker, plus a West Side Story trailer and a Chevrolet commercial. Earle wrote that he "put myself through art school" while Disney paid him a good salary and he unwittingly developed his style. Your side project is still in the Notes app.

The exhibition alone is $15 for adults, or $10 added to museum admission. The museum is open Thursday to Sunday, 10:00 to 17:30, last entry 16:30.

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Around 200 works by Eyvind Earle, the color stylist who gave Sleeping Beauty its jewel-toned look, following him from his Disney years into his fine art.

Look for

The Sleeping Beauty color work
Earle's paintings as the film's color stylist, the visual look of the 1959 feature.
The fine-art paintings and serigraphs
Work from his career as a painter and printmaker outside the studio.
The West Side Story trailer and Chevrolet commercial
Audiovisual pieces that show Earle's work beyond Disney animation.