(Walt Disney Studios, 1954) Original concept painting of Jiminy Cricket riding atop an airliner with his suitcase tucked beneath his arm, accomplished in gouache by artist Jim Fletcher on an off-white 8 x 8 card, bearing a replica of Walt Disney's signature to the lower right. Affixed to a blue 9 x 9 mount, signed and inscribed on the reverse in pencil, "To Tom, from Jim Fletcher, 1954." In fine condition. Fletcher, a graduate of the Chicago Institute of Art who began working at Disney in the 1950s, painted this as an aircraft insignia for a friend who entered the Navy and served aboard an aircraft carrier. Fletcher went on to have multiple stints of employment at Disney, in addition to Filmation, Hanna-Barbera, and other notable comic and animation studios.
