Disneyland 1963 Silhouette Artist Lotte Markay Main Street USA Walt Disney Prod for Sale

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Disneyland 1963 Silhouette Artist Lotte Markay Main Street USA Walt Disney Prod:
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Disneyland 1963 Silhouette Artist Lotte Markay Main Street USA Walt Disney Prod Disneyland 1963 Silhouette Artist Lotte Markay Main Street USA Walt Disney Prod

Historic Disneyland Treasures by Saturday's Toys presents... a scarce early 1960's original silhouette by skilled artisan Lotte Markay... from the Disneyland Silhouette Studio on Main Street, U.S.A.

Measures approximately 7" x 10.5"; good condition; featuring a young woman... and including the imprinted insignia of "by Lotte" directly beneath the silhouette.

Alex DeGonslar and his business partner, "Nemo" (aka Joseph Markay) along with Nemo's wife Lotte Markay... each had their own customized presentation card for their silhouette cut-outs... that was until Disneyland required that individual artists in the shop no longer be identified with the souvenir art form. Unfortunately... the anonymity of the artist was considered to be of paramount significance to the end product.

After decades of experience at world's fairs and expositions, in 1956 Alex and Nemo joined together in launching their own Silhouette Studio on Main Street, U.S.A. at Disneyland. Two years later they would be featured on Walt Disney's "Disneyland" anthology series (April 30, 1958)... on the episode titled "An Adventure in Art."

Throughout those early years, if one were to visit their silhouette studio at Disneyland (216 N. Main Street; replacing opening day merchant, "Grandma's Baby Shop") one of three individuals would likely be on duty: Alex DeGonslar, Joseph "Nemo" Markay, or Nemo's wife, Lotte Markay.

De Gonslar and Markay were both seasoned veterans in the vanishing art of silhouette cutting having applied their trade for world's fairs, exhibitions and amusement enterprises throughout the globe. The two men were well acquainted and had previously worked together at New York's Coney Island (source for several of the carousel horses that were brought to Disneyland in 1955).

In particular, Joseph "Nemo" Markay had created silhouettes for President Franklin D. Roosevelt (when FDR was serving as Governor of New York) and also for Winston Churchill (when he was serving as Prime Minister of England). Nemo was born in Hungary and studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and a graduate of Academie Julien. While trained as a sculptor, Nemo had practiced the craft of silhouette art for 25 years before arriving at Disneyland. In an unfortunate turn, a failed back surgery left Nemo confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. When he died, his wife was noted as Tove M. Markay, an immigrant from Denmark who later died in 1970.

Though several generations of Disneyland artists have continued the tradition since "DeGonslar" and "Nemo" left the stage, Disneyland's historic Silhouette Shop owes much of its success to the art form embraced by these early Disneyland entrepreneurs.

Offered here, is one of the rare first-generation Disneyland silhouettes personally cut by Lotte Markay at the Silhouette Studio on Main Street, U.S.A... and featuring the unique signature imprinted on the card.

Excellent condition; copyright Walt Disney Productions.

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