He painted backgrounds for Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" and "Lady and the
Tramp" plus others. Walt Disney noticed Earle's work after Earle
created the avant-garde 'look' for the Oscar/Cannes-award-winning short
"Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom". Earle was already an established
artist at 13, when he held his first exhibition in France. At 23, Earle
sold his first watercolor to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New
York. In the 1940s he painted over 800 landscapes for Christmas
cards.