Sterling Sturdevant

Sterling Sturtevant (1922–1962) was a designer and art director for animated cartoons in an era in which few women were worked in Hollywood animation. Some of her early work was done under her married name Sterling Glasband. Sturtevant was born June 20, 1922, in Redlands, California. She attended the University of Redlands from 1940 to 1944, and then attended Chouinard Art Institute, before taking her first job in animation at Walt Disney Pictures. The Los Angeles Evening Citizen News referred to her as "one of Hollywood's top designers of cartoon characters." She died May 23, 1962, in Los Angeles, California, at age 39.