Grace Bailey

Grace Bailey was an American ink artist and supervisor, who worked at Walt Disney Animation Studios and was the head of the Ink and Paint Department from 1954 to 1972. Bob Broughton, former Disney supervisor of special photographic effects once recalled, "Grace was quite a professional lady. She was class."
Born Elizabeth Grace Randall, she attended the Cleveland School of Art in 1922. After school, she left her home in Lake County found work with animator Max Fleischer for his Out of Inkwell series in New York. The studio went bankrupt in 1928 and she later moved to California hoping to advance her career. In 1932, after working as a custom lampshader in Beverly Hills, Bailey decided to apply for a job at the nearby Walt Disney Studios and won a position in the Ink and Paint department, which was supervised by Walt's sister-in-law Hazel Sewell, and worked primarily with the Silly Symphonies crew.
As time went on, she grew in stature and worked alongside Walt and Roy O. Disney adding color to the cels and animators' drawings. Her real contribution to the Disney Studios came following the success of Flowers and Trees when she began to formulate the palette of colors for the paint department, expanding the studio's inventory of colors beyond black, white and gray. She created many of the colors audiences and critics came to know and expect in Disney films.
Upon becoming Department head, Baily would train new artists to in the drawings as well as supervise the inkers. Former Studio painter Betty Kimball once recalled, "Everything was so unscientific back then. We were just creating, and it was fun. I remember Grace was head of Paint, and she had developed a new blue color. She tried to describe it to me: 'It's the same color as your dress, Betty. What color is your dress?' I had dyed my dress and I told her that the name on the package of dye was 'sky blue'. So she right there and then named the new blue after the color of my dress." Bailey also demanded outstanding work from her staff.
Bailey retired in 1972 and lived out the remainder of her years quietly until her death on August 23, 1983. She was awarded posthumously as a Disney Legend in 2000.
==Filmography==
Year	Film 	Position
1948	Melody Time 	Ink and paint artist - uncredited
1949	The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad	Ink and paint artist - uncredited
1950	Cinderella 	Ink and paint - uncredited
1951	Alice in Wonderland 	Ink and paint - uncredited
1953	Peter Pan 	Ink and paint - uncredited
1955	Lady and the Tramp 	Ink and paint supervisor - uncredited
1957	The Truth About Mother Goose 	Ink and paint supervisor - uncredited
1958	Paul Bunyan 	Ink and paint supervisor - uncredited
1959	Sleeping Beauty 	Ink and paint supervisor - uncredited
1959	Donald in Mathmagic Land 	Ink and paint supervisor - uncredited
1960	Goliath II 	Ink and paint supervisor - uncredited
1961	One Hundred and One Dalmatians 	Ink and paint supervisor - uncredited
1961	The Saga of Windwagon Smith 	Ink and paint supervisor - uncredited
1962	A Symposium on Popular Songs 	Ink and paint supervisor - uncredited
1963	The Sword in the Stone 	Ink and paint supervisor - uncredited
1964	Mary Poppins 	Ink and paint supervisor - uncredited
1966	Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree 	Ink and paint supervisor - uncredited
1967	Scrooge McDuck and Money 	Ink and paint supervisor - uncredited
1967	The Jungle Book 	Ink and paint supervisor - uncredited
1968	Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day 	Ink and paint supervisor
1970	Dad, Can I Borrow the Car? 	Ink and paint supervisor - uncredited
1970	The Aristocats 	Ink and paint supervisor - uncredited
1971	Bedknobs and Broomsticks 	Ink and paint supervisor - uncredited
1973	Robin Hood 	Ink and paint supervisor - uncredited
==Gallery==
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File:SleepingBeauty1959BehindTheScenesPhoto17.jpg|Bailey and Les Clark examining a color model cel of Briar Rose from Sleeping Beauty.
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