Blair's career began as a watercolor painter before joining the Walt Disney Studio in 1941. Blair started as a sketch artist before moving into art direction and inspirational sketches. Although a vast majority of her work was thrown out, Blair's fingerprints remain all over the studio's output both in animation and at various Disney Parks. Her signature design piece, It's All Small World After All, debuted at the New York World's Fair in 1964.

Filmography

• 1977Halloween Hall o' Fame — Colorist
• 1967How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying — Color Designer
• 1965Disneyland 10th Anniversary
• 1953Peter Pan — Conceptual Design
• 1952La petite Maison — Art Direction
• 1952Susie, the Little Blue Coupe — Art Direction
• 1951Alice in Wonderland — Conceptual Design
• 1949The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad — Conceptual Design
• 1948Melody Time — Conceptual Design
• 1948Once Upon a Wintertime — Story
• 1948So Dear to My Heart — Conceptual Design
• 1946Make Mine Music — Art Direction
• 1946Song of the South — Conceptual Design
• 1944The Three Caballeros — Art Direction
• 1942Lake Titicaca — Color Designer
• 1942Saludos Amigos — Mary Blair, Conceptual Design

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2025Mary Blair's Pigments of Imagination — Self (Archive footage)
• 2005The Art of Mary Blair — Self (archive footage)
• 1968Disneyland: From the Pirates of the Caribbean to the World of Tomorrow — Self (uncredited)
• 1967The Ceramic Mural — Self