Emil Ganso Signed Etching - shops Sunset - 1926

"Sunset" is a bold etching (soft-ground), aquatint and drypoint of a landscape (probably in Woodstock) signed in pencil by the artist, Emil Ganso. There is slight water staining on paper affecting signature but not image area (see detail image).

Image size: 8 x 9 7/8 inches

Born In Halberstadt Germany in 1895. Emil Ganso was an etcher, lithographer, wood engraver, painter and teacher. He studied at The National Academy of Design; with Ronau Woiceske at Woodstock New York; and received a Guggenheim Fellowship. His work impressed Erhard Weyhe, who bought his entire portfolio for his gallery. Ganso showed his work at the Weyhe Gallery from 1925-1936.

He spent summers at the Woodstock artist's colony. According to Leonard Bocour, who founded Bocour Artists Colors which in the late 1940s developed Magna paints and the first acrylics, Ganso was a master theoretician and leading technical person in Woodstock who all the major artists came to for help with their color.

From 1935 until 1937, he was part of the Federal Arts Project in New York. In 1939 he became artist-in residence at Lawrence College, Appleton Wisconsin.

Emil Ganso exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (1930-1935); the Art Institute of Chicago; the Wichita Art Museum, Kansas; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1931-1938); and the Whitney Museum of American Art (1927-1941). He also exhibited at the 1939 New York World's Fair and the Golden Gate Exposition in San Francisco that same year. Ganso was awarded the Pennell Memorial Medal from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1938. A retrospective exhibition for Emil Ganso was held at the University of Iowa Museum of Art upon his death in 1941 and again in December 1979.

Ganso, one of the Woodstock artists, handled a wide range of subject matters with a virtuosity characterized by a subtle balancing of darks and lights.

Emil Ganso's work is included in numerous collections, including the Akron shops Art Museum, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Brooklyn Museum, Currier Museum of Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Harvard Art Museums, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, and University of Iowa Museum of Art,

This etching is included in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and University of Iowa Museum of Art.