Mike Gabriel | Vance Gerry | Glen Keane | Shawn Keller

At the end of the Korean War, after mustering out of the Army, Vance Gerry, on the GI Bill, studied under Don Graham at the Chouinard Art Institute and soon made his way to the Disney Studios, first as an inbetweener, then a layout artist and finally on storyboards. Vance spent the next five decades working at Disney, alongside other long term story veterans like Burny Mattinson and Joe Grant, on more than thirty productions. Vance often split his time between the studio and Weather Bird Press, a successful letterpress business he founded and managed.  

Oliver and Company was his twentieth project for the studio and the movie from which these two items originated. The first picture sketch features the spoiled poodle, Georgette, admiring herself. In the second she is lambasting little Tito, the chihuahua, in a fit of temper. (Don't worry, by the end of the movie, Georgette has learned a lesson and turned over a new leaf!)