Word: ganso
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...display, in charge of Joseph Hudnut, Dean of the Faculty of Design, will continue until January 20, and includes works of Charles Sheeler, Isabel Bishop, Alexander Brook, John Marin, Franklin Watkins Georgia O'Keefe, Louis M. Eilshemius, Niles Spencer, Emil Ganso, Thomas Donnelly, Lucile Branch, and George A. Picken...
...that sum a purchaser had his choice of such particular bargains as two fine nudes by Emil Ganso, a crowded Coney Island beach scene by Reginald Marsh, a languorous Siamese cat by Agnes Tait, a lithograph of wild horses by last year's PWA discovery, Frank Mechau Jr., a group of bulbous people looking at other strange fish in an aquarium window by Mabel Dwight, a fine winter landscape by Ernest Fiene...
Woefully lacking in class consciousness, Artist Ganso would rather paint a pair of buttocks than all the breadlines on the Bowery. For years his artistic idol and best friend was Jules Pascin. Artist Pascin specialized in painting naughty little girls in pale misty colors with a spidery delicate line...
...Ganso's nudes are more frankly sensuous than those of Pascin, his color is stronger, his line less subtle. Jealous rivals have called him the "Rembrandt of barroom decorators."* As a matter of fact, no barroom yet boasts a Ganso nude, and Artist Ganso is quite as interested in painting the rolling hills, farms and orchards of Woodstock, N. Y., where he spends his summers, as he is in the lush ladies who pose for him in the winter time in Manhattan...
Best of the Ganso nudes exhibited last week was the figure of a young model seated by a tea table, a black lace scarf thrown over her shoulders (see cut). Shrewdly Artist Ganso has repeated the tawny color of her skin in the tan walls, the rich brown of the floor. Other pictures that stopped gallerygoers: two young women lying side by side on a lake shore, one nude, the other dressed only in silk stockings & pumps; and the back view of a plump female sprawled on a divan. A Guggenheim Fellowship and many exhibition prizes have come to Artist...