biographie de Gustaf Adolf TENGGREN (1896-1970)

Birth place: Magra Socken, Sweden

Addresses: West Southport, ME

Profession: Illustrator, painter, designer, lithographer

Studied: Slojdforening Skola & Valand Sch. FA, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Exhibited: 48 Sts. Comp., 1939; Los Angeles County Fair, 1939; Am.-Swedish Hist. Mus., Phila., 1945 (Nordfeldt & Tenggren); Am.-Swedish Inst., Minneapolis, 1950 (solo); Akron AI, 1952; Boothbay Harbor, ME, 1948 (solo), 1949-52; WMA; Oklahoma AC; AWCS; Wash. WCC; Phila. A. All.; Maine Art Gal., Wiscasset, ME, 1957. Awards: Herald-Tribune award, 1946.

Comments: Illustrator: Ring of the Niebelung," 1932; "Saldom and Golden Cheese," 1935; "The Tenggren Mother Goose"; "The Tenggren Tell It Again"; "Sing for Christmas"; "Sing for America"; "Tenggren's Cowboys and Indians"; "Pirates, Ships and Sailors"; "Tenggren's Arabian Nights," 1957; "Canterbury Tales," 1961. Position: art director, Walt Disney Studios, Hollywood.

Sources: WW66; WW40."