GIBSON, Blaine  (1918- ) designer, sculptor.
            Born Rocky Ford, Colorado, 11 February 1918.
            Attended Colorado University.
            Worked for Walt Disney Studios 1939-1983, first in
            animation, then superviser sculpture department, finally
            in Imagineering where he created audio-animatronic
            figures and bronzes for 1964-65 World’s Fair and
            Disney theme parks around the world. Sculpted 41
            figures for Hall of Presidents at Disney World.
            Inducted into Disney Legends 1993.

          M   E   D   A   L   S

1968 Walt Disney Memorial Medal (obv port by Gibson,
          rev designed by Robert Moore, modeled by Joe
          Kaba; struck by U.S. Mint) . . . . .Turner 29,
                                        Dean D1968-2, Swoger 304
          Auctions:. . . . . . . . . . .  PCA 54:1828, PCA 58:1777
          Illustrated: M60 {2008}Dean, National Comm Medals, p 29
          Illustrated: M62 {2008}Swoger, Nat Comm Medals p 230

1973 Walt Disney 50th Anniversary Medal (obv portrait by Gibson;
          struck by Medallic Art Co) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MAco 1973-145

          N U M I S M A T I C   R E F E R E N C E S

S26 {1968} Turner 29.
E17 {1983} Pessolano-Filos, p 47.
N31 {1992} Smith. American Numismatic Biographies, p 99.
M60 {2008}Dean, National Commemorative Medals of U.S. Mint; D1968-2, p 29.
M62 {2008}Swoger, Nat Comm Medals 304, p 228-231.