Word: ganso
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twelve years ago a sandy-haired German with vast feet and an enormous nose shuffled into the Manhattan gallery of Erhard Weyhe. He was, he said, a baker by trade. His name was Emil Ganso and he had a portfolio of drawings to show. Dealer Weyhe did not think the pictures were good enough for an immediate exhibition. Nevertheless he signed Baker Ganso to a long contract, gave him a small weekly allowance on which to live while he went on painting. It was a shrewd investment. Proudly last week Dealer Weyhe gave his protégé an exhibition...
...department stores in 50 provincial cities accompanied by elaborate catalogs, and a lecturer. The prints in limited editions will sell for from $10 to $40 a piece. Few museums can boast a more impressive roster of artists: Rockwell Kent, Mahonri Young, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, Emil Ganso, John Taylor Arms, Reginald Marsh, Peggy Bacon, John Steuart Curry, Conrad Buff, Eugene Higgins, Jerome Myers...
...winners from 77 two years ago to 57 last year, 38 this year. Poet George Dillon (The Flowering Stone) won a Pulitzer Prize while still a Guggenheimer (TIME. May 9); his Fellowship is renewed this year. Another repeater is moody George Antheil, cacophonous composer. Other winners: Artists Emil Ganso. Louis Bouche and Miguel Covarrubias (who will paint in the Dutch East Indies); Sculptress Gwen Lux; Poets e. e. cummings, Louise Bogan; Biographer Matthew Josephson; Novelists Glenway Wescott. Leonard Ehrlich: Composer Paul Nordoff; Economists Henry Schultz and Charles Frederick Roos; historians, physicists, chemists, biologists...
There is nothing long and virginal about Emil Ganso. He is short and 40, mustached, a great talker, a feverish cigaret-smoker, with thinning blond hair uncombed, big feet, unpressed suit, unpolished shoes. He lives at Woodstock, N. Y., where he is socially prominent, sometimes bakes a loaf of bread...
...exhibition at snappy Casa del Mar Club at Atlantic Beach, N. Y. where members surprisingly objected to Ganso's oil, Two Nudes Reclining, on the grounds that it was demoralizing to both children and adults. After art experts had lectured the club management on Ganso's technique, the picture was allowed to remain...