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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 Shy Little Kitten (1946)
A shy, striped kitten explores the farm with a mole and a puppy and goes on a picnic with the other animals.
Author(s):
Cathleen Schurr
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Sing for America (1944)
Favorite American songs with stories and illustrations.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Opal Wheeler
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Sing for Christmas: A Round of Christmas Carols and Stories of the Carols (1943)
A collection of traditional Christmas carols with accompanying music and stories about the carols.
Author(s):
Opal Wheeler
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Sleepy Time Tales (1964)
An anthology including Tawny Scrawny Lion, Mister Dog and Brave Cowboy Bill.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
Gustaf Tenggren
Garth Williams
Small Fry and the Winged Horse (1927)
Small Fry tells wonder stories to the children of his village.
Author(s):
Ruth Campbell
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Snow White and Rose Red: A Favorite Fairy Tale (1955)
Two sisters befriend a bear on a snowy winter’s night. When summer comes they encounter an evil dwarf. When the two meet the fur flies.
Author(s):
Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Stories from a Magic World (1938)
When a gang of rogue elves and fairies try to kidnap his flannel elephant, Dickey Byrd must come to his rescue. A collection of stories about Dickey and his adventures. The color plates are by Tenggren.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Woodruff
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Carl Emil Wehde
Stories from the Great Metropolitan Operas (1943)
Synopses of twenty-five operas frequently performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City are accompanied by illustrations by Tenggren.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Helen Dike
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Stories of the Vikings (1923)
Tales of adventure founded on the Snorra, an Icelandic work from around 1225 A.D.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Maurice Dunlap
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The Story of England (1943)
A short illustrated history of England for young readers.
Author(s):
Helen Arbuthnot
Beatrice Curtis Brown
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Sven the Wise and Svea the Kind (1932)
A collection of stories from Lappland.
Author(s):
Alicia O’Reardon Overbeck
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The Tenggren Mother Goose (1940)
A selection of traditional rhymes and songs.
Author(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The Tenggren Tell-It-Again Book (1942)
A collection of all-time favorite tales.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Katherine Gibson
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Tenggren’s Bedtime Stories (1963)
This edition contains only three stories, The Gingerbread Man, Chicken Little and Little Red Riding Hood.
Author(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Tenggren’s Cowboys and Indians (1948)
Fifty-two stories and rhymes about the old West.
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Tenggren’s Pirates, Ships, and Sailors (1971)
The first edition includes forty-two stories, poems and songs. Later editions like this one had only twenty-six or even twenty-four as in the 2006 edition. They all have to do with the sea and sailors.
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Tenggren’s Tawny Scrawny Lion (1952)
Author(s):
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Tenggren’s The Lion´s Paw: A Tale of African Animals (1960)
Only the mouse has the courage to remove the thorn from the lion’s paw. This is a large format edition.
Author(s):
Jane Werner Watson
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Tenggren’s Topsy Turvy Circus (1953)
The giraffe comes to the rescue when the circus of Monsieur Augustin has difficulties.
Author(s):
Georges Duplaix
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Thumbelina (1953)
A very small girl has many adventures.
Author(s):
Hans Christian Andersen
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren