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...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...
...Emil Ganso has been called the artistic heir† of Jules Pascin (pronounced Pass-kin, born Pincas, first name unremembered, in Bulgaria of a Spanish-Jewish father and a Serbo-Italian mother) who slit his wrists and hanged himself on his Montmartre bedroom doorknob in 1930 (TIME, Jan. 19, 1931). Ganso was Pascin's star pupil. Pascin is still Ganso's model as an artist. Ganso paints and draws the same loose-hipped women, is partial to the same drooping, bulbous com position. Like Pascin, he makes a fetish of loyalty to his friends. Unlike Pascin, who hated...
When he bowls he delivers the ball from a strange squatting position. When Manhattan Art Dealer Erhard Weyhe gave the little, round, friendly baker his first exhibition, loaves of bread were conspicuously scattered around the gallery. But Baker Ganso had never thought of himself as a baker. From boyhood he had been fixed on art, had baked for a living. When in 1912 he arrived in the U. S. he kept up both baking and art. In 1926 he began to be noticed. His etchings, lithographs and aquatints were better than his water-colors and oils but he kept...
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...