Illustration: Three Early Tenggren Books
Today, we digitized the illustrations from three more early books by Gustaf Tenggren. Tenggren was a key concept artist on Snow White and Pinocchio, and it’s clear that the Disney artists looked to his...
View ArticleInbetweens: Boy’s King Arthur by N. C. Wyeth
N. C. WYETH N. C. Wyeth Biography at the Brandywine River Museum Great news! A new book on N. C. Wyeth is being released… Legendary Art of N.C. Wyeth by J. David Spurlock. It’s been quite a while since...
View ArticleIllustration: John Bauer’s Bland Tomtar Och Troll
Like many of the artists we feature here on this blog, John Bauer is a name that not many people know. His career was relatively short, but his influence was far reaching. Born in 1882 in Sweden, Bauer...
View ArticleIllustration: Arthur Rackham’s Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Arthur Rackham is probably the single most influential children’s book illustrator. His delicate watercolors define the image of fairy tales in many people’s minds. If you aren’t familiar with his...
View ArticleIllustration: N. C. Wyeth’s Legends of Charlemagne
Today, we digitized a beautiful first edition of Bulfinch’s "Legends of Charlemagne" illustrated by N. C. Wyeth. No illustrator of the golden age had a wider influence on the world of art than Wyeth....
View ArticleIllustration: Kay Nielsen’s 12 Dancing Princesses and Hansel and Gretel
animationresources.org Nielsen was a Danish illustrator who is best known today for his concept work at Disney on Fantasia. Nielsen’s pastels of Chernabog from the “Night on Bald Mountain” sequence set...
View ArticleIllustration: Arthur Rackham’s Grimm’s Fairy Tales
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...
View ArticleIllustration: Gustaf Tenggren’s Grimm’s Fairy Tales
This is a real treat… an extremely rare 1923 edition of Grimm’s Fairy Tales illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren. When I first began my work sharing the stories of the great artists of the past with you,...
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