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Gustaf Tenggren
(1896 - 1970)
Gustaf Adolf Tenggren (November 3, 1896 - April 9, 1970) was a Swedish-American illustrator. He is known for his Arthur Rackham-influenced fairy-tale style and use of silhouetted figures with caricatured faces. Tenggren was a chief illustrator for The Walt Disney Company in the late 1930s, in what has been called the Golden Age of American animation, when animated feature films such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, Bambi and Pinocchio were produced.
A website devoted to his work is at http://www.gustaftenggren.com/. A review article is at the Barnboken Journal of Children’s Literature Research.
Bibliography
The Good Dog Book (1924)
Eleven classic dog stories, including “A Dog of Flanders” and Adrift on an Ice-Pan.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Wilfred Grenfell
Ouida
Various
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The Good Earth (1931)
A family story of China. Tenggren did only the dust jacket.
Author(s):
Pearl S. Buck
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Grimms Märchenschatz (1923)
A selection of the tales of the Brothers Grimm with thirty-two color illustrations by Tenggren. The text is in German.
Author(s):
Brothers Grimm
Jacob Grimm
Wilhelm Grimm
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Gustaf Tenggren - En Biografi (2014)
The first biography of illustrator Gustaf Tenggren, in Swedish.
Author(s):
Oskar Ekman
Lars Emanuelsson
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The Gustaf Tenggren Fairy Tale Calendar for 1925 (1924)
There are five illustrations total. See all five images at Gustav Tenggren's World.
Author(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Heidi (1923)
The orphaned Heidi goes to live in the Swiss mountains with her grandfather. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Johanna Spyri
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
How They Carried the Goods: From the Creaking Sleds of Pharaoh to the Swift Airplane of Today (1932)
A series of short vignettes describing how goods were carried in historical times.
Author(s):
Charles G. Muller
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Jack and the Beanstalk: An English Folk Tale (1953)
How Jack traded his cow for some magic beans that took him to the cloud land of the giants.
Author(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Jorden rundt i 80 Dage (1923)
Phileas Fogg and the intrepic Passepartout set out to circle the globe in 80 days for a stake of 20,000 pounds dogged by the determined detective Fix. Danish translation, interior black and white illustrations by Tenggren.
Author(s):
Jules Verne
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Et al
Juan and Juanita (1926)
Juan and Juanita and their dog Amigo are kidnapped by Comanches and held captive for four years until they make their escape and trek three hundred miles home.
Author(s):
Frances Courtenay Baylor
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Jungle Tales: Little Black Sambo and The Saggy Baggy Elephant (1948)
This book includes The Saggy Baggy Elephant and “Little Black Sambo.”
Author(s):
Helen Bannerman
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Kaptajn Grants Born (1923)
Author(s):
Jules Verne
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Et al
Kaptajnen paa 15 Aar (1923)
In this nonstop melodrama the crew of a whaler pick up a group of shipwrecked seamen, are turned around and end up in west Africa, are enslaved, escape and make their way back to America. Interior illustrations by Tenggren.
Author(s):
Jules Verne
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Et al
Kejserens Kurér (1923)
While on his way to Irkutsk to warn the governor of a plot to betray him to the rebel Tatars Michael finds a wife and nearly loses his life more than once. Interior illustrations by Tenggren.
Author(s):
Jules Verne
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Et al
Keraban Stivnakke (1923)
To avoid paying a tax to cross the Bosphorus, Keraban takes a seven hundred league detour around the shore of the Black Sea. Also published in two volumes: The Captain of the Guidara and Scarpante the Spy. Interior illustrations by Tenggren.
Author(s):
Jules Verne
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Et al
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (1962)
A retelling of the story of King Arthur and his Knights.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Barbara Lindsay
Emma Gelders Sterne
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Kittens: Three Complete Stories (1958)
This collection includes The Three Little Kittens, The Shy Little Kitten and My Kitten.
Author(s):
Patricia Scarry
Cathleen Schurr
Illustrator(s):
Masha
Gustaf Tenggren
Eloise Wilkin
The Lion´s Paw: A Tale of African Animals (1959)
Only the mouse has the courage to remove the thorn from the lion’s paw.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Jane Werner Watson
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Little Black Sambo (1948)
The classic story of a little Indian boy who turns the tables on a tiger who wants to eat him for breakfast. Later editions are much shortened.
Author(s):
Helen Bannerman
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The Little Match Girl (1944)
Forced to sell matches on the street on a freezing Christmas eve, the little match girl is taken in by a kindly grandmother.
Author(s):
Hans Christian Andersen
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren