I purchased this painting at the thrift store yesterday and have researched the origin of the Painting, Artist and Frame Shop without success.
The painting seems to be an original done in pencil then painted with what looks like acrylic paint on mat board. The painting is initialed in pencil "BH" on the lower front and on the back the name "Brenda Haywood" and number "#1106" was written by the artist or someone else. On the frames back panel that hold the painting, mat and glass into the frame are the initials "SB" written in pencil at the bottom of the back panel.
There is pencil sketching visible on the birds belly areas and on Bambi's tail where it looks like the painter forgot to paint the back part of the tail section white. There is no number in that area or any other area where it might indicate this was a paint by numbers painting. There is also some small pencil sketching visible in other areas. I've searched for this image everywhere including searches with paint by numbers with the search keywords and found nothing. But who knows, there are hundreds of thousands of Bambi images out there.
The painting is about 9 3/4 inches wide and 14 3/4 inches tall and the frame and mat are about 16 inches wide and 20 inches tall.
The painting is attached to a mat board at the top with tape that has information about the frame shop that framed the painting. On the tape it has the the frame shop owners name, address and an old phone number "Kenmore 6-4669" which would indicate the framing was done at least around 50 years or more ago I think (See image below - I removed the mat and painting from the frame to take pictures).
I'm having trouble finding out which Bambi Movie this was from since it was first released in 1942 and re-released in 1947, 1957, 1966, 1975, 1982, and 1988. I'm also wondering if this could be part of a Disney storyboard or serigraph process/series that was hand painted or was done by someone who just did nice artwork and copied it freestyle by hand and painted it on there own.
Anyone have any ideas about the origin, time period, which movie, the artist or anything?
Thanks,
Kevin