11/25/2023 0 Comments Little golden books poky and friends![]() By 1923, he was hard at work breaking into the American children's book market - the heyday of the grand illustrated books by illustrators such as Arthur Rackham and Kay Nielsen. Tenggren's early schooling and artistic influences were solidly grounded in Scandinavian techniques, motifs and myths he worked with illustrating in the popular Swedish folklore and fairy tales annual Bland Tomtar och Troll ("Among Elves and Trolls"), where he succeeded illustrator John Bauer.Īfter his first exhibition in 1920, Tenggren left Sweden and moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where his sister lived, and in 1922 to New York City. ![]() In 1913 he received a scholarship to study painting at Valand, the art school in Gothenburg, Sweden. Gustaf Tenggren was born in 1896 in Magra Parish, south of Alingsås, Sweden.
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