tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80544619488274058512023-12-29T11:33:18.284-08:00Gustaf TenggrenSwedish-American illustrator whose images have become icons for millions of people all over the World.Lars Emanuelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308139405539914246noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8054461948827405851.post-68731993345249146182023-12-12T12:15:00.000-08:002023-12-13T06:10:49.330-08:00A Tenggren sleeper comes publicIt is not common to get to see Tenggren art from the Disney period which have not been already published. Here is a recent example. Just recently, this concept painting by Gustaf Tenggren was sold on Heritage Auctions. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN9c2M1xYVmP7vdcNEN81cTVGf6p8jijBJBAmYz0vEuXJoM304N7gKffbnY15vOYSF_Cl1cIDEwiZe02XEboMY12FP1kbajKi53RuoOIWjdvS-O79nevZs_UGgvUh6R9cYQvjZbHKcsHmLEPwDypFyoEFXxKsw8r__v9fy59SsfT_FaXJBkhxFeD2Wki0T/s1000/Pinocchio_and_gepetto.jpeg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="1000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN9c2M1xYVmP7vdcNEN81cTVGf6p8jijBJBAmYz0vEuXJoM304N7gKffbnY15vOYSF_Cl1cIDEwiZe02XEboMY12FP1kbajKi53RuoOIWjdvS-O79nevZs_UGgvUh6R9cYQvjZbHKcsHmLEPwDypFyoEFXxKsw8r__v9fy59SsfT_FaXJBkhxFeD2Wki0T/s400/Pinocchio_and_gepetto.jpeg" width="580" /></a></div>
The painting depicts the moment when Gepetto, swallowed by Monstro the Whale, meets Pinocchio who has come to save him. Pinocchio's tail and easel ears are revealed and Gepetto shouts "But what happened to you?". <div><br /></div><div>This painting was made on a late stage in the production. At the time, Tenggren was busy making forest studies for "Bambi", but was asked to return to the studio to make more concept art for "Pinocchio". It can be seen from the design of both characters. On an early stage in production, when Tenggren started to make concept layouts for the movie, Pinocchio and Gepetto had not yet reached their final looks. Tenggren's paintings from that time show Pinocchio as a more toy-like wooden doll, and Gepetto as a stout man. Later on, before animation was started, Pinocchio's and Gepetto's designs were altered and finalized, which is reflected here. </div><div><br /></div><div>The total painting is definitely made by Tenggren: his thin, exact lines in combination with the subtle watercolor rendering of the various surfaces is unmistakenly Tenggren's. Some discrepancies in the modeling of the characters feel unfamiliar with Tenggren's style, though. Tenggren was a master of drawing hands and it is unlike him to draw hands with three fingers on humans. Also, Pinocchio's stature here is more "cartoony" than Tenggren used to draw. Still, it is a great painting and I am thankful that we can add it to the known ones. </div><div><br /></div><div>This painting was close to disposal – it was found on the floor and rescued by a Disney artist during the move of the studio from Hyperion Street to Burbank. As it now comes to surface for the first time, it was sold at the sum of USD 48,000, following and consolidating the prize level of the Disney related artwork of Gustaf Tenggren. </div>Lars Emanuelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308139405539914246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8054461948827405851.post-70001888477341131402021-08-16T06:42:00.000-07:002021-08-16T06:42:19.037-07:00Gustaf Tenggren, the toddler<p>Just recently, I had the pleasure to receive this photo. It may look as an average 120-year old family group photo, but it is probably the first image ever showing Gustaf Tenggren together with his siblings, and of Gustaf himself at that. </p><p style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsxatgQRhQItCwrp5JkukBDZOBTDHaRxRUoN9Um7NRsELtdA4XgTbQj4BMv0u-CqoZAeVJR_S2YdUTUx43mqrEQLGoB4_W6suBsdMfn8guJ4XtXZ-bIl2iy9Q26IS8sNLJRP7-4eKM2PT8/s764/Augusta_w_children_small.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="764" data-original-width="500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsxatgQRhQItCwrp5JkukBDZOBTDHaRxRUoN9Um7NRsELtdA4XgTbQj4BMv0u-CqoZAeVJR_S2YdUTUx43mqrEQLGoB4_W6suBsdMfn8guJ4XtXZ-bIl2iy9Q26IS8sNLJRP7-4eKM2PT8/w418-h640/Augusta_w_children_small.jpg" width="418" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table></p><div style="text-align: left;">Here we see Gustaf's mother Augusta along with her six children. The family father, Aron Enoch, is not present, reason unknown. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The persons are:<br />On top, Olga Natalia b. 1888, and Anna Teresia b. 1886.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><div>In front of them Ester Konstantia b. 1892 and Agnes Olivia b. 1894.</div><div>Sitting in front, Erik Sigurd b. 1890 and deceased in 1897 from diphtheria. This is the only photo I have ever seen of him, possibly the only existing. It has been said that he was artistically gifted and carved little figures of wood like his grandfather, Johan Teng. </div><div>And on mom’s lap, Gustaf Adolf b. 1896. Gustaf is barely a couple of months old. You can see that he does not want to sit still in front of the camera. </div><div> </div><div>Although not dated, the image can actually be quite accurately placed in time. The photo must have been taken some time in between Gustaf’s birth November 3, 1896 and Erik’s death on January 30, 1897. </div><div> </div><div>The following year, in 1898, the family would move to Gothenburg, where Gustaf's younger brother, Gunnar, was born in 1899. </div></div><p></p>Lars Emanuelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308139405539914246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8054461948827405851.post-43962643978934987652021-08-12T01:47:00.002-07:002021-08-12T01:47:42.640-07:00Silverware ads turned into pirate story book<p>During his first years in New York in the 1920ies, Gustaf Tenggren was fastly reaching a position as one of the most sought-after illustrators. Many of the advertisement commissions had a historical or mythological connection, and Gustaf Tenggren was a master at rendering historical clothing and props. Starting in 1926, Rogers Bros Silverware company hired Gustaf for a series of ads, depicting pirates hunting for treasuries, led by a young woman as their pirate queen. In 1927, a brochure was produced in the form of a story book, illustrated with a number of Gustaf's paintings used for the ads and with new pages to accompany them. The book is small, only 11x16 centimeters, but still quite powerful, especially the imposing cover. Here is the total set of spreads. 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This museum is built to commemorate the art of Swedish sculptor Carl Milles, but throws at least three great art shows of other artists yearly. This time, Gustaf Tenggren is the subject. The generous loans of art from important American archives like The Walt Disney Family Museum, Kerlan Collection and Weisman Museum in Minneapolis guarantee the quality of this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition. Along with the art lent by Museums and private persons in Sweden, the show stands out as the most ambitious Tenggren exhibition so far.<br />
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The opening was held in attendance of members of the American Embassy in Stockholm who also are sponsoring the show. Museum Director Onita Wass held the opening speech and curator and Tenggren biographer Lars Emanuelsson followed with some words. The exhibition features legendary Tenggren art from his period as an employee at the Walt disney Studio 1936 - 1939, never before seen in Sweden. Concept paintings for the feature films <i>SnowWhite and the Seven Dwarfs</i> and <i>Pinocchio</i> and Silly Symphony <i>The Old Mill</i> can be studied closely.<br />
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Spectacular illustrations from his years as a famed commercial artist and illustrator during the 1920ies and 1930ies in New York reveals why he was hired by Disney in the first place. Additionally, a great selection of children's book art from his years as a Golden Books artist tops off the exhibition. The show runs from February 22 through May 31 2020, and is a must for anyone who loves Tenggren art and wants to see a representative compilation of his art, spanning his total production. This opportunity may not come back, so hurry to Millesgården in Stockholm to see the show.<br />
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Gustaf Tenggren wishes all Gustafficionados a happy and prosperous 2019!</div>
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Today I would like to send the best greetings to all Tenggren fans with a couple of stunning spreads. <i>The Night Before Christmas</i> by C. Clement Moore was published in 1951 by Simon & Schuster as a Big Golden Book. </div>
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Gustaf Tenggren illustrated this classic in his typical 1950s style, using decorative, stylized planes of bright colors in a syncopated jazzy rhythm. A clear inspiration from his former Disney colleague Mary Blair can be recognized. <span style="text-align: center;"> </span><br />
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In this spread, with Santa delivering toys, Gustaf has included three of the characters he invented for Little Golden Books. The Poky Little Puppy, The Lively Little Rabbit and The Tawny Scrawny Lion are all featured in the image, although the lion was not introduced until the year after, in 1952. I think this somewhat forgotten Tenggren book is one of his brightest and merriest. With that, i wish all A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!Lars Emanuelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308139405539914246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8054461948827405851.post-51566011815170704072018-07-14T11:55:00.002-07:002018-07-14T11:55:39.171-07:00Gustaf Tenggren visits Millesgården<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg_PWPrVF-Oj3jfpadLyWWEHdXUFPxynZomxQvMX8ZBECWD6eHVMYM4uUDbONxsS3lF9mOMrlHw1EH-pf5tqqXgSGeqpRVd2s3RQdGLjGbmsEWWDZRgUdM7GTTZbDyDmeJpTYIyDgue6dS/s1600/Tenggren_2020_logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="70" data-original-width="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg_PWPrVF-Oj3jfpadLyWWEHdXUFPxynZomxQvMX8ZBECWD6eHVMYM4uUDbONxsS3lF9mOMrlHw1EH-pf5tqqXgSGeqpRVd2s3RQdGLjGbmsEWWDZRgUdM7GTTZbDyDmeJpTYIyDgue6dS/s1600/Tenggren_2020_logo.png" /></a>The year 2020 will be a special year for admirers of Gustaf Tenggren and his art. Apart from being a numerically and visually interesting set of numbers, it marks a couple of anniversaries connected to Gustaf Tenggren's life. In 1920, Gustaf Tenggren arrived in USA from Sweden. In 1970 he died in Maine after a long career. That means that the year 2020 not only marks the centennial anniversary of his arrival in USA but also the 50-year commemoration of his passing.<br />
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So what can be more appropriate than to throw a comprehensive exhibition of his work? As it happens, the museum of Swedish sculptor Carl Milles, Millesgården, has decided to do just that. In spring of 2020, a Gustaf Tenggren exhibition will be held at Millesgårdens Konsthall. The scope is to display a total overview of Tenggren's production and I have been asked to curate the show, the task of which I have most gratefully, although in utter humbleness, accepted.<br />
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The venue of Millesgården seems quite logical – the similarities of the two artists are many. Carl Milles was born in Sweden and had built a career in Sweden as a prominent sculptor with several commissions before he visited USA in the beginning of the 1930ies. In 1931 he was hired as a professor in sculpture by the Cranbrook Academy. He stayed and worked in USA for 20 years, before he returned to his home at Lidingö, the current premises of Millesgården Museum. </div>
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Gustaf Tenggren had also started his career as an illustrator of magazines and fairy tale books when he left Sweden for USA. Just as his fellow countryman he built a solid reputation as an artist and illustrator on American turf, but unlike Milles, he never returned to his paternal homeland. </div>
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The homecoming of Tenggren's art to the country where he was forgotten for a vast period will mean a great opportunity to get acquainted to Gustaf Tenggren's art as a whole. The venue for this event could not be better; Milles and Tenggren is a combo hard to beat. </div>
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As mentioned already, on June 22nd Gustaf Tenggren was inducted as a member of <a href="https://www.societyillustrators.org/programs/hall-fame" target="_blank">Society of Illustrator's Hall of Fame at a Ceremony</a> held in the premises of the club on128 East 63rd Street in New York. </div>
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For once, the event reception was held in the exhibition area, which turned out to provide a spectacular environment for the venue, hosting parts of Stephen Korshak's amazing collection of illustration art as it was. Very appropriately, two works by Gustaf Tenggren were included in the show, both of which from his early artist years. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gustaf Tenggren: Trolls walking downhill, 1915. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gustaf Tenggren: Witch. From Bland Tomtar och Troll, 1922.</td></tr>
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Receiving the award on behalf of Gustaf Tenggren was Barbara Wells Fitzgerald, daughter of Gustaf's younger brother, Gunnar. Her son Christopher and Nhu Tran accompanied her at the reception dinner. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gustaf Tenggren's niece Barbra Wells Fitzgerald, <br />
her son Cristopher Wells and Nhu Tran on the Hall of Fame red carpet. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Barbra Wells Fitzgerald sharing her memories of <br />
her uncle Gustaf Tenggren to the reception audience.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Barbra Wells Fitzgerald and Cristopher Wells holding the award.</td></tr>
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Gustaf Tenggren sure was in good company: the other illustrators awarded in 2017 were:<br />
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<li style="text-align: left;">Mort Drucker</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Bart Forbes</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Burne Hogarth</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Anita Kunz</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">George Petty</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Ralph Steadman</li>
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From the impressive list of awardees, three were present at the reception. Ralph Steadman, who had provided the event logo, could unfortunately not make it but was participating through a video.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ralph Steadman, participating through a video link, holding the symbols of the event. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anita Kunz</td></tr>
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Anita Kunz and Bart Forbes both held acceptance speeches to the audience from the stand, while the reception's grand old man, Mort Drucker, preferred to thank for the award more briefly. After all, this gentleman, born in 1929, is in his right to go easy after a 60-year career as a cartoonist.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Legendary MAD illustrator and Hall of Fame awardee </span>Mort Drucker <br />
enjoying the company at the Society of Illustrator's prize ceremony.</td></tr>
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All in all, this induction ceremony consolidated Gustaf Tenggren's repute as one of the important early New York illustrators during the years when the Society of Illustrator were still in its bud. I'm so happy that his niece Barbara was able to attend the venue, accepting the prize on her uncle Gustaf's behalf. It would have made him proud, entitling himself an artist as he always was throughout his career. </div>
Lars Emanuelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308139405539914246noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8054461948827405851.post-4665649325002092992017-05-13T11:25:00.006-07:002017-05-13T11:25:59.621-07:00And the awardees are... I am truly proud to announce that Gustaf Tenggren has been chosen to be inducted as a member of The Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame in New York. Finally he is acknowledged as one of the great illustration artists of USA. <br />
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The induction ceremony will take place on June 22nd, 2017, at the premises of the Society of Illustrators in New York City. He is in good company – the other laureates at the event are:<br />
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Mort Drucker</div>
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Bart Forbes</div>
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Burne Hogarth</div>
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Anita Kunz</div>
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George Petty</div>
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Ralph Steadman</div>
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So go for a ticket while you can! <a href="https://www.societyillustrators.org/shop/buy-tickets/1121">https://www.societyillustrators.org/shop/buy-tickets/1121</a>Lars Emanuelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308139405539914246noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8054461948827405851.post-83420922148995227772017-04-06T12:41:00.002-07:002017-05-16T03:33:38.726-07:00Beyond Golden Books<div style="background-color: white; display: inline; margin-top: 6px;">
<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.24px;">In a series of lectures, the archivists and curators of The Archives of University of Minneapolis will talk about exciting holdings from the collections and their originators .</span></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: start;"></table>
<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.24px;">First in line on Friday April 7, is "Beyond Golden Books: The Art of Gustaf Tenggren", presented by Caitlin Marineau, the Children’s Literature Research Collections.</span></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: start;"></table>
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<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.24px;">Gustaf Tenggren is known and beloved for his illustrations for books such as The Poky Little Puppy, as well as his work on many classic Disney films, but if we dive deeper into his work, we can unearth a treasure chest of art, from unpublished works to out-of-print classics.</span></span></div>
Lars Emanuelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308139405539914246noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8054461948827405851.post-20671144451686094642016-12-22T00:26:00.002-08:002016-12-22T00:26:35.251-08:00Merry 120th Christmas, Gustaf!I would like to wish all readers of this blog a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! What better illustration is there than this great painting from Opal Wheeler's compilation of Christmas Carols from 1943: "Sing for Christmas".<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Illustration for "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" from <br />"Sing for Christmas" by Opal Wheeler.<br />E.P. Dutton & Company, New York 1943.</td></tr>
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The book may have been planned as a sequel to the much appreciated "Favorite Hymns" by Inez Bertail from 1941. A Swede of origin, Gustaf Tenggren still has skillfully captured the very special spirit of the Anglo-Saxon type of Christmas. Already in 1936, 16 years after his arrival in USA, Tenggren had became a naturalized citizen, and his illustrations had continuously grown more and more American.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cover for "Sing for Christmas"</td></tr>
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His interpretation was indeed as convincing as to result in yet another song book by Opal Wheeler the year after: "Sing for America" was a collection of patriotic songs that proved that Tenggren had thoroughly managed to grasp the sentiment of American cultural heritage, and to a degree that made him seem even more patriotic than the Americans themselves. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cover for "Sing for America" by Opal Wheeler. <br />E.P. Dutton & Company, New York 1944.</td></tr>
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Lars Emanuelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308139405539914246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8054461948827405851.post-41404825600610848092016-11-03T05:59:00.000-07:002016-11-03T05:59:00.165-07:00Happy 120th Birthday, Gustaf Tenggren!Today, November 3rd, 1896, Gustaf Tenggren was born.<br />
His parents Aron and Augusta Tenggren lived along with Aron's father Johan Teng in a small cottage in the parish of Magra, situated in the West of Sweden. Already in the house were four older sisters, but Gustaf was actually the sixth in order; his older brother Sigurd died from diphteria just a year after Gustaf's birth.<br />
In 1898 the family moved to Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg, where Gustaf grew up. In 1910, being only 14 years old he was accepted at an art school, spending six years studying art while continuously painting portraits and illustrations.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gustaf Tenggren at 20 years a hundred years ago, while visiting <br />
Copenhagen <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">in 1916 </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">along with some fellow students. </span></td></tr>
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After living for a year in Copenhagen he and his wife, Anna, left for USA in summer of 1920. Gustaf would soon gain a reputation as a skilled and productive artist and illustrator, competing with the cream of the commercial artists. His fame led to his employment by the Disney Studio 1936-1939 where he took part in a number of productions of iconic animated films, such as Snow White, Pinocchio, Fantasia and Bambi, along with a row of short films, many of which received Oscar awards.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gustaf Tenggren app. 1960 in his home at Dogfish Head, Southport Island, Maine.<br />The house is furnished with Swedish antiques. </td></tr>
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When he died on April 6th, 1970, he had illustrated 50 books in USA. One of them, The Poky Little Puppy, was by the turn of the Millennium 2000 the most printed illustrated children's book in the USA ever. </div>
Lars Emanuelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308139405539914246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8054461948827405851.post-46599713933705508532016-10-21T02:03:00.002-07:002016-10-21T06:32:20.810-07:00Here they were!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Five of Gustaf Tenggren's illustrations for the<br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Little Golden Book "</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Little Black Sambo", Simon & Schuster 1948.</span></td></tr>
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In the autumn of 2013 I visited Kerlan Collection at the Children's Literature Research Collection in University of Minneapolis, Minnesota.</div>
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I was doing research for my biography on Gustaf Tenggren and spent a week browsing thru some fifty crates of original Tenggren artwork. I was happy to learn that the paintings for almost every book were present in the folders respectively. </div>
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But when I came to the box containing Little Black Sambo, to my great disappointment I noticed that a number of the most important illustrations, including the wonderful cover, were gone.</div>
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So my feelings were mixed as I found out that the missing illustrations are featured at an auction by <a href="http://catalogues.lesliehindman.com/asp/fullCatalogue.asp?salelot=470++++++333+&refno=10307061&saletype=" target="_blank">Leslie Hindman's auctioneers.</a> I'm glad to see them alive and seemingly well preserved, but sorry that they have gone extracted from the Collection, probably while they were still in the custody of Gustaf's spouse, Mollie Tenggren.</div>
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Tenggren's version of this not uncontroversial minor classic from 1899 by missionary Helen Bannerman, was published as a Little Golden Book by Simon & Schuster in 1948. Nowadays it has since long gone out of print. Despite the content, the paintings are among Tenggren's foremost in the row of 13 Little Golden Books he made from 1942 to 1962. A true gem!</div>
Lars Emanuelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308139405539914246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8054461948827405851.post-23659698481675355812016-08-31T05:26:00.002-07:002016-08-31T05:26:54.150-07:00From left-over puppy to all-time bestseller<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Janette Sebring Lowry: "The Poky Little Puppy" Simon and Schuster, 1942.</td></tr>
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In the spring of 1940, Artists and Writers Guild, a subsidiary to Western Printing, and publishing company Simon and Schuster had agreed to launch a series of low-cost children’s books. They would combine quality stories with attractive illustrations and offer affordable literature for every child all over the continent through vast print runs. The Little Golden Book was born.<br />
The first batch contained twelve books, including the five-tale compilation “Bedtime Stories” that was commissioned to Gustaf Tenggren. The other scripts had already all been handed out, except for one: “The Poky Little Puppy” by Janette Sebring Lowry. Tenggren was asked if he knew anyone that would be suitable for the job, and said that he might try it on himself. Thus, he became the only one receiving two of the books in this historic start-up.<br />
Daniel K. Smith, whose parents worked with the Tenggren’s, has the facts about the creation of the iconic canine. Mollie Tenggren has retold to him how Gustaf initially, as with many other commissions, was hesitant to start on the painting process. He would usually wait until the final deadline and then lock himself up in the studio and produce the book. Mollie was always relieved when he finally started the project. She'd tell people “Shhhhh, he’s working on the book” and keep them away. This time, he had no dog models. The first attempts were, according to Mollie, “…terrible! A whole lot of dogs of various breeds!” Instead, she suggested that he “use that little dog he created before”, referring to “Scally” in the “Good Dog Book” from 1923. Gustaf went back to the drawing table and started over. The remodelled appearance of this left-over pup would eventually become a popular classic next to none. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Good Dog Book" anthology. Houghton and Mifflin, 1924. <br />One of the shorts stories included Scally, allegedly the model for The Poky Little Puppy.</td></tr>
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The twelve books were published in 50,000 copies each, and the total print-run of 600,000 copies arrived at the bookstores in October 1942. The success was instant: the complete print run sold out immediately, and after five months all twelve titles had been printed three times each, encompassing 1,500,000 copies, or 125,000 per title. Of these, “The Poky Little Puppy” would by far be the most popular. By the turn of the Millennium 2000, the book had been printed in over 15,000,000 copies, making it the most selling illustrated children’s book in America ever.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Janette Sebring Lowry: "Where is the Poky Little Puppy?"<br />Simon and Schuster, 1962.</td></tr>
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In 1962, the sequel” Where is the Poky Little Puppy?” was presented, possibly to celebrate the 20-year anniversary of the predecessor. It would be Gustaf Tenggren’s last Little Golden Book of totally 17 produced. Needless to say, it never reached even the fraction of its forerunner’s sales. But then again, not many books did.Lars Emanuelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308139405539914246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8054461948827405851.post-4555558347926429882016-04-29T06:57:00.002-07:002016-04-29T06:57:36.107-07:00A theme with variationsLast week an early Tenggren painting came up for sale in Stockholm. It was very decorative, and the auction house thought it be an illustration for Aladdin, the Persian tale from Arabian Nights. I recognized it as a study for a series of decorations for Palladium, a then new-built cinema theater in Gothenburg. The Palladium was inaugurated on August 14, 1919, and was financed by Fred and Anton Kanold, two brothers in the confectionery business.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christ and the Adulteress.<br />Watercolor 1919.</td></tr>
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For the theater foyer, some dozen of paintings were commissioned from Gustaf Tenggren. In the 1970ies, the cinema was refurbished and the paintings disappeared. Only three of them were discovered some ten years ago. They all depict scenes from early silent movies that were presumably screening at the theater at the time. One of them is inspired by D. W. Griffith's "Intolerance" from 1916, and shows the scene where Christ defends the adulteress from the mob. Tenggren's signature on the sketch reveals that it was made in 1919, which is also the case with the final painting. It seems probable that Tenggren has showed the first proposal to the commissioners, but then been asked to make the paintings more realistic. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christ and the Adulteress, scene from D. W. Griffith's "Intolerance" from 1916. <br /> Decoration for theater foyer. <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Watercolor 1919.</span></td></tr>
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It's obvious that these early painting bear a strong influence from the anti-Semitic currents that were common at the time. Cartoons with stereotype Jewish characters were published in each and every magazine and newspaper, and Tenggren, who was always eager to fulfill the commissioner's requirements, has naively followed the stream. </div>
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After his emigrating to USA in 1920, these typecast caricatures is hard to find. An illustration for Abraham Mithrie Rhibany´s "The Christ Story for Boys and Girls" from 1923 shows the scene in more solemn depiction. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christ and the Adulteress. <br />Illustration for Abrahm Mithrie Rhibany, The Christ Story for Boys and Girls, 1923.<br />Watercolor 1923.</td></tr>
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This scene obviously depicts the theme of Christ and the Adulteress as well, but as the book was aimed for boys and girls, the editor has chosen to use it to illustrate Christ healing the sick instead. </div>
Lars Emanuelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308139405539914246noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8054461948827405851.post-627830026438987032016-03-10T00:19:00.001-08:002016-08-17T02:18:30.807-07:00Jack Sprat and his wife - a perfect match<br />
The Mother Goose book was one of a number of readers that the teacher in English, Emma Miller Bolenius, wrote for Houghton Mifflin during the 1920ies. The book was "A Work and Play Book for Silent Reading", as the subtitle said. This Tenggren book has previously been presented <a href="http://gustaftenggren.blogspot.se/2013/11/gus-goes-goose.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emma Miller Bolenius: Mother Goose Book 1929<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Emma Miller Bolenius: Mother Goose Book 1929<br />The following copies had an alternate, <br />line-drawing front cover printed on the cloth. <br />The inlays were identical.</span></td></tr>
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The three various versions of the well-known verse about Jack Sprat and his wife make up another great example of how a well-known popular theme has been illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren at various times, resulting in different styles. The earliest one from 1929 adapts to the line drawing style of the previous readers in the series, but also owes a lot to the style of the English artist W. Heath Robinson.<br />
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For an advertisement in Saturday Evening Post in 1935, Gustaf has used his well established and sought-after traditional fairy tale style, resembling of Arthur Rackham's. This is the year before he joined the Disney Studio, and this may be one of the very last examples of this type.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jack Sprat used in an advertisement in Saturday Evening Post 1935</td></tr>
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The last illustration on this theme comes from The Tenggren Mother Goose in 1940, a year after his leaving Disney. Here, Tenggren has adopted a totally new approach, using tempera colors. The stringy line drawing is gone and the surfaces are treated as flattened colorful forms, assembled to build up the painting. This would be the style used for the remainder of Tenggren's post-WWII books. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jack Sprat, The Tenggren Mother Goose 1940</td></tr>
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<br />Lars Emanuelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308139405539914246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8054461948827405851.post-8693645035979243542015-12-14T07:48:00.003-08:002016-12-21T23:42:50.316-08:00Gustaf bought Swedish antiques collected in 1905The other day I bought a photograph of William Widgery Thomas. Born in Portland, Maine in 1839, he was a member of a family counting its heritage back to George Cleeve, founder of Portland in 1632.<br />
Thomas studied law and in his thirties he was sent by Abraham Lincoln to Sweden as a consul, where he was placed in Gothenburg 1863 – 1865. He became deeply committed to the people and culture of the country, even learning to speak Swedish during his stay.<br />
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Pioneer within American - Swedish diplomatic connections.</div>
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He returned to Sweden as a diplomat for two periods, first as a minister resident 1883 – 1885 and later as an ambassador in Stockholm between 1898 and 1905. He amazed the audiences, both in Sweden and later in the Swedish-American colonies, by holding his speeches in Swedish. He married a Swedish woman and acquired a mansion-like summer cottage by the sea, just outside Karlshamn in southeastern Sweden. After his death in 1927, at the age of 88, he was buried in Portland, lauded as being one of the most important persons within the Swedish-American relations.</div>
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In 1904, W W Thomas' nephew, Henry George Thomas, traveled the county of Dalarna in Sweden collecting rural antiques of all kinds. The next year over a thousand of items were shipped to Portland, Maine, where they stayed put in storage until 1945 when the whole collection was purchased by Gustaf Tenggren. No one knows what the things were meant for, or why they were never unpacked. There are guesses about a Swedish museum connected to the colony of Swedish immigrants that W W Thomas brought to Maine.</div>
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The photo was taken in 1921 when he was once more urged to go to Sweden as minister. While at that time being 82, he declined.</div>
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Lars Emanuelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308139405539914246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8054461948827405851.post-32216438049716402252015-08-24T02:47:00.002-07:002015-08-24T02:52:08.047-07:00 Hidden treasures revealedA great addition to the canon of lauds on the early designers of The Disney Golden Years has arrived last week. Didier Ghez' "They drew as they pleased" is the first in a row of biography compilations, covering the foremost inspirational artists that gave the look and feel to the Disney movies through the years.<br />
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This first one in the series presents the most prominent artists of the nineteenthirties: Albert Hurter, Ferdinand Horwath, Gustaf Tenggren and Bianca Majolie. The research for the biographies are very thorough and present a whole lot of new data, and along with the spectacular images, of which most are so far unpublished, this book makes up a real treasury of knowledge, beauty and inspiration.<br />
The book release is due for September 8, but it can be pre-ordered <a href="http://www.amazon.com/They-Drew-Pleased-Hidden-Disneys/dp/1452137439/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1440402881&sr=1-1&keywords=they%20drew%20as%20they%20pleased&pebp=1440402884264&perid=0FWMB2Q0RZGGH7WJPQV5">here</a>. <br />
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<br />Lars Emanuelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308139405539914246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8054461948827405851.post-65708459977581910052015-08-05T00:50:00.000-07:002015-08-05T00:50:47.798-07:00Beautiful paintings for grim talesThe first internationally published, and therefor possibly best known, works of Gustaf Tenggren are the illustrations for "Grimm's Fairy Tales". The 32 full color paintings were executed 1917-1920. In 1919, Tenggren even moved to Copenhagen while he was simultaneously occupied with another project for the publisher, "<a href="http://gustaftenggren.blogspot.se/2014/04/rare-tenggren-books-discovered.html">Jules Verne's Novels</a>" in ten volumes, described earlier in this blog. The four last of the Grimm paintings were delivered to Jespersen from Cleveland, OH, after Tenggren's migration to USA in the summer of 1920. One of them, with the two trolls, was supposedly included in the small group of three, sold at <a href="http://www.bruun-rasmussen.dk/" target="_blank">Bruun-Rasmussen's Auction House</a> in Copenhagen yesterday, August 4th, 2015.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Illustration for Grimm's Fairy Tales: <br /><a href="http://www.bruun-rasmussen.dk/sold-items.do?pg=7&t=a&iid=300762462&did=1004532&mode=detail" target="_blank">The Brave Little Tailor</a>, watercolor 1920.</td></tr>
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The two-part volume of the Grimm tales was produced by Jespersen's publishing Company in Copenhagen, who published it in 1923. But already in 1922, it was published in Sweden by Bonnier's, indicating a co-operation between the two publishers. Later it was also published in Norway and in 1925 in Germany, this time in one volume by the name of Grimm's Märchenschatz.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Illustration for Grimm's Fairy Tales: </span><br style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><a href="http://www.bruun-rasmussen.dk/sold-items.do?pg=7&t=a&iid=300763600&did=1004532&mode=detail" target="_blank">Snow White</a>, watercolor 1919.</span></td></tr>
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Apparently Tenggren's original paintings for the book was presented to the new owner after Jespersen's divestment of the company to Lindhardt og Ringhof publishing company in the early 1980ies. At that time, about a half of the totally 32 paintings was sold at Bruun-Rasmussen, but the owner obviously saved these three treasures at the time. They are surely some of the very best from the collection, and we can only wait for the remaining some ten pieces to surface.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Illustration for Grimm's Fairy Tales: </span><br style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><a href="http://www.bruun-rasmussen.dk/sold-items.do?pg=7&t=a&iid=300763601&did=1004532&mode=detail" target="_blank">Tinkerbell</a>, watercolor 1919.</span></td></tr>
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Lars Emanuelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308139405539914246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8054461948827405851.post-3014332881238186662015-05-28T01:10:00.001-07:002015-05-28T01:23:33.844-07:00Lady of the lakeIt is not often that you see early commercial works By Gustaf Tenggren coming up for auction. Now there's an opportunity to catch one. This great black & white drawing is sold at <a href="http://www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk/Lot/?sale=DA170615&lot=194&id=292678" target="_blank">Wooley and Wallis' auction of Arts and Crafts 17 Jun, 2015.</a><br />
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It's made in crayon, either a conté crayon or a lithographic crayon, with highlights in white gouache. This was presumably made around 1925 for a beauty advertisement in one of the major American magazines, like Delineator, Good Housekeeping or Pictorial Review. At the time, Tenggren made ads for some dozen of magazines, and was a fast rising star on the commercial illustration scene of New York City.</div>
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A unique piece, and seemingly in good shape. The estimate, £300-500, is not unreasonable. For details, call <a href="mailto:michaeljeffery@woolleyandwallis.co.uk" target="_blank">Michael Jeffrey</a>, Arts & Crafts expert at Wooley and Wallis, at +44 (0) 1722 424505.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Right detail. Is this Charon rowing the Styx? His passenger does not look worried though.</td></tr>
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Lars Emanuelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308139405539914246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8054461948827405851.post-79503333470002615222015-05-07T04:08:00.001-07:002015-05-07T04:28:17.122-07:00Greetings from winterlandIt might seem to be out of season, but a couple of recent e-mails carried along two very nice Tenggren pieces that I'd like to share. The sender wanted me to have a look on a framed print, once given to his grandfather, who had been a commercial artist and had received the picture from Tenggren himself.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYMhShjSRWPiV98OSidn7o99piCAGYHujTmq24jZ8473LzSWdPo-fVlGcjixqHx3Sivc8mFLMSUjoxPnuijF7zHgwzbeLUDlKhukS7wADn8RmG9yF2tbP3VGV67bx8tEOlLveR_B4WUHSH/s1600/Hobo_Xmascard_fix.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYMhShjSRWPiV98OSidn7o99piCAGYHujTmq24jZ8473LzSWdPo-fVlGcjixqHx3Sivc8mFLMSUjoxPnuijF7zHgwzbeLUDlKhukS7wADn8RmG9yF2tbP3VGV67bx8tEOlLveR_B4WUHSH/s400/Hobo_Xmascard_fix.jpg" width="395" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christmas card watercolor, 1940ies.</td></tr>
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I instantly recognized it as a Christmas greeting sent by Gustaf and Mollie Tenggren to friends and relatives. The version I had seen was in Swedish and sent to Robert Hartmann, probably sometimes during the 1940ies.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christmas card (the original card is in color). The text is in Swedish and says:<br />
"A merrier Christmas for You". The recipient Robert Hartman was born in Germany <br />
but went to Sweden before WWII, married a Swedish wife and was fluent in Swedish. </td></tr>
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But after a closer comparison, I could conclude that the sender's picture was not a print at all. The pasted-on print on the card was cropped much tighter than on his image. What he had was the real original and I could only congratulate him.<br />
That seemed to encourage him to look for more around the house. Soon after this, he sent another item, a printed Christmas card. I had never seen it before but a similar one, which I posted here last Christmas. They are so alike that it makes you think they were two from a series of cards, probably produced in the early 1920ies.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christmas card, B&W print on cardboard, early 1920ies.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Christmas card, B&W print on cardboard, early 1920ies. <br />Original signature by Gustaf Tenggren.</span></td></tr>
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The motif with the poor lost characters trying to get some warmth in the cold and dark, snowy night is often used by Tenggren, and shows great compassion for the less fortunate, be it hobos or trolls.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christmas card, B&W ink wash with highlights in <span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">opaque </span><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">white, 1927. </span></td></tr>
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One of the earliest is a painting made in Sweden in 1919, a pair of trolls in front of a lighted candle in the midst of the forest. A fair guess would be that this as well is meant for a Christmas greeting in some form; a card or an illustration.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trolls in the woods, watercolor 1919.</td></tr>
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Later in his life Tenggren returned to the theme when he illustrated H C Andersen's heartbreaking fairy tale, The Little Match Girl. The motif is similar to the Christmas card with the troll above, made some twenty years before. Even the kids at the Christmas tree are the same, just with a toddler added.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">H C Andersen, The Little Match Girl. Grosset & Dunlap 1944.</td></tr>
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Lars Emanuelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308139405539914246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8054461948827405851.post-91589387229650876152015-04-28T01:17:00.001-07:002015-04-28T01:26:30.649-07:00Early Tenggren portrait of Rudolf Petersson discovered<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gustaf Tenggren: portrait of Rudolf Petersson, <br />
fellow painting student, party pal and brother-in-law.</td></tr>
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Now and then I get a letter with an image and an inquiry whether this is a real Tenggren painting or not. This time the attached jpg featured a portrait. I was quite happily surprised, as I immediately recognized the person. The focused young man with the white scarf and the ever-present pipe was Rudolf Petersson.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rudolf Petersson from an unknown clipping, app. 1918.</td></tr>
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To the main Tenggren fan he may not be familiar, but to some 3-4 generations of Swedes he is the originator of a well-known comic book hero, 91:an Karlsson. The comic strip started already in 1932 and has a large group of dedicated readers to this date, although Petersson himself died in 1970.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rudolf Petersson at military service 1916. <br />
Petersson got the inspiration for his <span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">comic book hero <br />91:an Karlsson from his time as a soldier.</span></td></tr>
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Gustaf Tenggren and Rudolf Petersson, called Dolle, met when they both attended Valand school of Painting in Gothenburg in autumn of 1915. They became best friends, painting and partying together during the three years they spent at school. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gustaf Tenggren: a late drawing depicting his time at Valand school of painting in Gothenburg. <br />
Rudolf "Dolle" Petersson is sitting next to the model.</td></tr>
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The Petersson portrait was most likely made in 1916, possibly during a model painting session since Rudolf seems concentrating on depicting a motif. </div>
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In September 1918 Gustaf married Rudolf’s sister Anna and so the two comrades even became brothers-in-law. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gustaf Tenggren <span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">married </span>Anna Petersson on her birthday October 3rd, 1918. </td></tr>
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As Gustaf and Anna moved to Copenhagen in 1919, Rudolf joined them, living in their apartment. And when the couple left for USA and settled in Cleveland, OH in July 1920, Rudolf followed just the year after. They truly seemed inseparable.<br />
In Cleveland, Rudolf quickly gained reputation as a talented cartoonist and caricaturist and worked for several newspapers, such as The Cleveland News and The Bystander.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rudolf Petersson and famed jazz orchestra band leader, <br />
Paul Whiteman showing a caricature for a poster <br />
announcing a jazz concert at Keith’s Palace Theatre. <br />
Cleveland News, 1920ies.</td></tr>
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However, the friendship may have got chipped as Gustaf started to see another girl, Malin Froberg, who were later to be his wife. From that moment, Gustaf’s and Anna’s already withered marriage gradually fell apart, coming to an end as Gustaf and Mollie left for New York in 1923, leaving Anna and Rudolf in Cleveland. The Petersson siblings returned to Sweden in the thirties. Rudolf started drawing 91:an Karlsson and Anna re-married eventually. She kept an album of clippings about Gustaf all her life.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rudolf Petersson in his studio 1963. By this time Petersson and <br />
91:an Karlsson had become a part of the national cultural heritage. <br />
The popular soldier even became a statue in Halmstad, Petersson's home town.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A 91:an Karlsson comic album from 1934, two years after its first appearance.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An 60-year anniversary album with the <br />
original and the later version of 91:an Karlsson.</td></tr>
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But Rudolf Petersson hardly ever spoke of Gustaf Tenggren later in his life. Maybe that is why the portrait was found in a junk shop in Oslo at the price of 50 Norwegian crowns, or a mere $10.</div>
Lars Emanuelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308139405539914246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8054461948827405851.post-51030482670591783262015-03-26T03:20:00.000-07:002015-03-26T03:21:13.460-07:00The last resortThe other day I received a postcard that I bought on Ebay. Its common interest is probably next to none, except for myself. The motif is Gustaf Tenggren's home at Dogfish Head, West Southport Island, Maine and probably from the 1950ies.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The text reads: The home of Gustav Tenggren -- Dogfish Head, Maine. As seen from the "Argo". <br />
The boat house is not visible on this photo, indicating it might have not been built yet.</td></tr>
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The photo has been taken from the tour boat Argo cruising the Maine archipelago coast<br />
For me, it is interesting to learn that Gustaf Tenggren's fame, if only local, at the time was enough to print this card, which was possibly sold on-board the boat.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The excursion boat "Argo" departed from Bootbay Harbour for day trips along the coast.</td></tr>
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The Tenggrens lived in New York City when they found the place by coincidence while sailing along the Maine archipelago coast. It was a former fisherman's homestead, and used to be an important producer of dried codfish. The Tenggrens bought the property in 1943 and moved there in 1944, beginning a major project to transform the buildings into a home and studio.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The structure includes a number of buildings: a dwelling house with Gustaf's studio, a barn, <br />
storage houses. A boat house down at the water was added later. </td></tr>
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The remodeling continued during the 1940ies and 1950ies. Gustaf hired locals for the the work he didn't managed on his own. After Gustaf's death in 1970, Mollie lived in the house until her own death in 1984.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Gustaf and Mollie's home on Dogfish Head seen from top. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mollie Tenggren by the boat house.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gustaf driving his car, possibly the same one as can be sen parked <br />in front of the house on the postcard.</td></tr>
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Lars Emanuelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308139405539914246noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8054461948827405851.post-78153532939336886812015-02-20T04:38:00.002-08:002015-02-23T04:58:14.389-08:00Heisey's Glassware and Tenggren's history of glassIn the autumn of 1927 Gustaf Tenggren received a commission for an advertisement, depicting the Fenician's discovering the secret of glass-making. Situated in Newark, Ohio, Heisey's glassware was a well established producer of pressed household glass. From originally producing clear glass, in the mid 1920ies the company started to introduce brightly colored glass. Heisey's was the first glass company to use magazine advertising as an essential marketing tool.<br />
In his income ledger Gustaf Tenggren has noted the steps through the delivery process quite detailed, making it possible to follow the complete order from the intermediating company, J Horace Lytle's Ad Agency in Dayton, Ohio.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">December 1927: </span>Original B-W watercolor for the ad "The Fenicians discovering glass". </td></tr>
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The first ad, in B-W only, was published in Saturday Evening Post in December 1927. It seems to have been very well received, as it were followed by four more in full color during 1928 and a final one in early 1929. Each of the following illustrations were executed as oil paintings and paid with $800 each, whereas the first B-W ad was $500.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">January 1928: Marietta Beroviero reveals her father's craft secrets of<br />
making colored glass <span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">to her lover, thus breaking the monopoly.</span></td></tr>
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The row of paintings form a colorful panorama, illustrating some of the highlights in the history of glass. It gave Tenggren another opportunity to excel in historic clothing and consolidated his reputation as one of the more important commercial artists at the time.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May 1928: A Fenician artisan 2000 years ago amazes the Emperor by blowing glass.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 1928: The Roman noblewoman receives a rare and precious gift, a glass item.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">September, 1928: The officers drink to the health of the King, James II, <br />
in a yard long glasses made out of the newly discovered flint glass.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">January 1929: Petronius, sentenced to death by Nero, lifts a vase <br />
of poisoned drink, determined to end his life in gaiety.</td></tr>
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Lars Emanuelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308139405539914246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8054461948827405851.post-34032776290789075362015-01-23T06:57:00.002-08:002015-01-23T07:15:15.941-08:00A Christmas legend of Hamelin TownHere's a typical Tenggren illustration commission from his great period in the 1920ies. The story was published for the Christmas number of Good Housekeeping in 1928, but the actual work was done and delivered July 15. A month later, August 16, it was paid with $600, a not uncommon sum in Gustaf's ledger from the time.<br />
The two illustrations were probably made in full color but the magazine has chosen to print them in a reduced color scale. The painting is cut in half to fit the spread.<br />
Luckily, I found the original painting while browsing through the Miscellaneous illustration crates in the Tenggren papers, Kerlan Collection at University of Minneapolis, MA.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;">Opening spread for A Christmas legend of Hamelin Town, Good Housekeeping 1928.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Original painting for A Christmas legend of Hamelin Town.<br />
Kerlan collection of the University of Minnesota Libraries <br />
with permissions from the Archives and Special Collections</td></tr>
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The other illustration for this story shows an old lady and a crowd of children. Let alone Tenggren's excellence in painting cute kids, this painting is interesting in another way. The model for the kneeling old lady is Tenggren's own mother, Augusta. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Full page illustration in three colors <span style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;">for <br />A Christmas legend of Hamelin Town, Good Housekeeping 1928.</span></td></tr>
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Tenggren often used his relatives as models for his paintings, and he loved his mother very much as I think can be seen from the beautiful portrait from 1932 below.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gustaf Tenggren: Portrait in chalk of Augusta, mother of the artist, 1932.</td></tr>
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