Illustration: Tenggren's D'Aulnoy and Good Dog Book

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Just in case you aren't convinced yet that Gustaf Tenggren is one of the most amazing children's book illustrators of all time, here are two more persuasive arguments. These two books were published in 1923 and 1924, a very busy period for Tenggren. He had recently relocated to New York City, and he illustrated no less than eight books in a very short period of time. Make sure to click through the links to our other Tenggren posts at the bottom of this article to see more of his beautiful work.













THE GOOD DOG BOOK






Lines and Colors posted a nice feature on Tenggren this week.

For more incredible illustration by Gustaf Tenggren, see Tenggren's Grimms Fairy Tales Part One and Part Two, Heidi, Wonderbook and Juan & Juanita, and Small Fry and the Winged Horse.

See also... Einar Norelius' Bland Tomtar Och Troll 1929 and 1934, John Bauer's Bland Tomtar Och Troll 1917, Arthur Rackham's Grimm's Fairy Tales Part One and Part Two.

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Media: Arthur Rackham's Grimm's Fairy Tales

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Arthur Rackham was one of the most influential illustrators who ever lived. If you aren't familiar with his work, see Bud Plant's biography. These scans are from a first edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales from 1909. This book is packed with amazing color plates and ink sketches.

Along with Edmund Dulac, (see our previous postings of his work... Poe's Poetical Works, H. C. Andersen Stories, and Tanglewood Tales) Rackham was one of the most popular book illustrators of the early 20th century.

Walt Disney admired Rackham's watercolor and pen & ink style, and instructed Gustaf Tenggren (see our previous postings of his work... Small Fry and the Winged Horse, Three Early Tenggren Books, Grimm's Fairy Tales, and The Little Trapper) to work with Claude Coates and Sam Armstrong to adapt it for use in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In animation backgrounds however, the sinewy Rackham line was overly busy, distracting from the characters; so Tenggren evolved towards the more dimensional painting style in Pinocchio, which set the standard for Disney cartoons throughout the 1940s.






























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Media: Tenggren's Grimm's Fairy Tales

This post is just the tip of the iceberg... see The Top Ten Reasons To Support The A-HAA for more jaw dropping images from classic illustrated books.

This is a real treat... an extremely rare 1923 edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren. If you've been following the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Blog for a while, you'll remember our previous postings: Tenggren's Tell It Again Book Part One and Part Two, The Little Trapper, Small Fry and the Winged Horse, and Heidi, Wonderbook and Juan and Juanita.

































For more incredible illustration by Gustaf Tenggren, see... Tenggren's Tell It Again Book Part One and Part Two, D'Aulnoy Fairy Tales and The Good Dog Book, Heidi, Wonderbook and Juan & Juanita, and Sing For Christmas.

See also... Einar Norelius' Bland Tomtar Och Troll 1929 and 1934, John Bauer's Bland Tomtar Och Troll 1917, More Norelius and Bauer, Arthur Rackham's Grimm's Fairy Tales Part One and Part Two, Kay Nielsen's East of the Sun and West of the Moon and Hansel & Gretel, Dulac's H.C. Andersen Part One and Part Two.

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Media: Kay Nielsen's Hansel And Gretel

This post is just the tip of the iceberg... see reason number 6 on our The Top Ten Reasons To Support The A-HAA for links to more great posts about golden age illustration.


Today, I'd like to introduce a new Archive Alliance, nocloo.com... Dedicated to the work of classic children's book illustrators, this site is a labor of love for bibliophile, Minh Lai. At nocloo.com, you'll find catalog listings of books organized by artist, and galleries of illustrations from rare first editions. Minh has generously offered to donate high resolution, carefully color corrected scans of these precious books to the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive. Other collectors are doing the same... Dan Goodsell loaned his amazing collection of artwork from the Ray Patin Studios to be digitized, and I contributed scans of my own collection of Mexican Lobby Cards.

If you have a wonderful book, video or collection of artwork that you would like to contribute to our archive, drop me an email for our digitizing guidelines. If you have a good quality scanner, you can scan the images yourself, or you can drop the items off at the Animation Archive in Burbank to be digitized. This is a great way to share your collection with artists, students and researchers and use it to make a positive impact on the art of animation.

Here then, courtesy of nocloo.com is Kay Nielsen's Hansel and Gretel...












For more beautiful illustrations by Kay Nielsen, see Twelve Dancing Princesses and East of the Sun and West of the Moon.

I will be posting more amazing scans from Minh Lai's collection over the coming weeks. Please bookmark our homepage and check back regularly,.

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Stephen Worth
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10.01.08
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