Gustaf Tenggren

Gustaf Tenggren
Illustrator
Born in Sweden 1896; died in America 1970

Early in his career Gustaf Tenggren was a popular advertising artist. He worked for Disney designing the look of Snow White and Pinocchio. Later his career was book illustration. His European influences are everywhere in his wonderful artwork. These examples are from The Tenggren Tell-It-Again Book, published by Little, Brown and Company in 1942.

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Hubert Buel

Hubert Buel
Watercolorist and Illustrator
1915-1985

Hubert Buel was a California artist of renown who founded the West Coast Watercolor Society. He also did some book illustrations. These are from The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek by Evelyn Sibley Lampman, published in 1955. Details in Buel's brush, pen and ink drawings are kept to a minimum, yet his figures show weight and mass by use of thick and thin lines in his inking.

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Harrison Cady

Walter Harrison Cady
American cartoonist and illustrator
1877-1970

Most closely associated with the books of Thornton W. Burgess, Cady was very prolific in other areas as well. He did newspaper comic strips and editorial cartoons, comic books and other children's books. These illustrations are from Raggedy Animals by Sherman Ripley, 1935 edition of a 1928 book, and Ant Ventures by Blanche Elizabeth Wade, published in 1924.

Thanks to David Miller, who provided these scans from his personal collection.

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Gordon Laite

Gordon Laite
American Illustrator
b. 1925
pictures from The Blue Book of Fairy Tales
© 1959 Western Publishing Company.

Despite my scans of a book that wasn't printed well--it has some color registration problems--the artwork of Gordon Laite shows through. He was a designer and illustrator of great skill. His girls are beautiful, his monsters grotesque. Many people who remember this 1959 Little Golden Book were impressed by the pipe-smoking hag in Rapunzel.

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