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Description:The Prints of Emil Ganso fills the serious need for documentation of the prints of a remarkable artist who made a major contribution to printmaking in America.In the decade and a half before his death in 1941, Ganso was a well-publicized and popular artist. Today, however, there is much confusion over the details of his graphic work. This stems largely from the paucity of documentation about his prints. Ganso left no records and was haphazard in titling his prints, giving edition sizes, and signing his work. He used the same titles over and over, and often gave an image more than one title-in several cases as many as four different titles. As his wife, Fanny, put it, "Emil was not interested in bookkeeping."As a consequence, the compiling of information on Ganso's prints resembled the production of a mosaic. Information was gathered from the inscriptions on Ganso's prints in public and private collections, accession cards and records in museums, files of clippings in libraries, gallery sales lists, museum exhibition lists, articles in old art journals, books on printmaking, and the artist's correspondence. Except for a few that cannot be located, each print is reproduced in this catalog. Details are given on titles, media, years, dimensions, and edition sizes, as well as other relevant information. A biographic sketch traces Ganso's life from a village in Germany to a faculty post at a leading American university.Emil Ganso's life might have served as the pattern for the Horatio Alger "rags-to-riches" stories. After working in the kitchen on a transatlantic liner, he jumped ship in Hoboken, New Jersey, at the age of seventeen. Unable to speak English and lacking any training in art, Ganso managed to climb into the top ranks of American artists.Ganso considered himself foremost a painter, but he was also a master printmaker. He produced excellent prints in each medium: lithographs in black and white and in color; the various intaglio processes; woodcut, wood engraving, and linoleum cuts; and stencil prints. Not only was he prolific-he produced over four hundred prints in a short artistic career-but he was also an exceptional technician. He made his own inks, grounds, and tools; helped design printing presses; pioneered in several printmaking processes; and printed most of his own plates, stones, woodblocks, and stencils, as well as those for other printmakers.Ganso's work continues to win the admiration of collectors and curators alike. By gathering all his known graphic work in this volume, Donald E. Smith has made a substantial contribution to the scholarship of American prints.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Prints of Emil Ganso. To get started finding The Prints of Emil Ganso, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The Prints of Emil Ganso fills the serious need for documentation of the prints of a remarkable artist who made a major contribution to printmaking in America.In the decade and a half before his death in 1941, Ganso was a well-publicized and popular artist. Today, however, there is much confusion over the details of his graphic work. This stems largely from the paucity of documentation about his prints. Ganso left no records and was haphazard in titling his prints, giving edition sizes, and signing his work. He used the same titles over and over, and often gave an image more than one title-in several cases as many as four different titles. As his wife, Fanny, put it, "Emil was not interested in bookkeeping."As a consequence, the compiling of information on Ganso's prints resembled the production of a mosaic. Information was gathered from the inscriptions on Ganso's prints in public and private collections, accession cards and records in museums, files of clippings in libraries, gallery sales lists, museum exhibition lists, articles in old art journals, books on printmaking, and the artist's correspondence. Except for a few that cannot be located, each print is reproduced in this catalog. Details are given on titles, media, years, dimensions, and edition sizes, as well as other relevant information. A biographic sketch traces Ganso's life from a village in Germany to a faculty post at a leading American university.Emil Ganso's life might have served as the pattern for the Horatio Alger "rags-to-riches" stories. After working in the kitchen on a transatlantic liner, he jumped ship in Hoboken, New Jersey, at the age of seventeen. Unable to speak English and lacking any training in art, Ganso managed to climb into the top ranks of American artists.Ganso considered himself foremost a painter, but he was also a master printmaker. He produced excellent prints in each medium: lithographs in black and white and in color; the various intaglio processes; woodcut, wood engraving, and linoleum cuts; and stencil prints. Not only was he prolific-he produced over four hundred prints in a short artistic career-but he was also an exceptional technician. He made his own inks, grounds, and tools; helped design printing presses; pioneered in several printmaking processes; and printed most of his own plates, stones, woodblocks, and stencils, as well as those for other printmakers.Ganso's work continues to win the admiration of collectors and curators alike. By gathering all his known graphic work in this volume, Donald E. Smith has made a substantial contribution to the scholarship of American prints.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Prints of Emil Ganso. To get started finding The Prints of Emil Ganso, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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