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Elegant as ever
// Gustaf Tenggren
This image was published in November 29, 1956. The famous Saturday Evening Post Cover with Walt Disney had been published just a couple of weeks ago and the local Maine paper The Boothbay Register was making a visit by the artist. At the time his main scope was to meet the deadline for the 100 full color illustrations for Arabian Nights, that were to be delivered in December.
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| Gustaf Tenggren had just recently celebrated his 60 year birthday in November 3, 1956, when this picture was published. He doesn't look too overwhelmed, being disturbed in his work. |
This 60 year old gentleman is painting along in a nice suit and and tie. On the drawing board is one of the stunning pages illustrating a ferocious fight at sea. It all turned out to be one of his most beautiful books ever. Below is the remarkable original, kept in the vaults of Kerlan Collection in University of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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| Full page from Sindbad the Sailor, Margaret Seifer's compilation of Golden Tales from Arabian Nights published by Simon & Schuster in 1957. Kerlan collection of the University of Minnesota Libraries with permissions from the Archives and Special Collections. |
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