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EMIL GANSO (1895-1941)
Reclining Female Nude. Oil and pencil on paper mounted on board, 1929. 460x390 mm; 18¼x15½ inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right recto.
Provenance: Private collection, Chicago.
Born in Germany, Ganso came to the U.S. as a teenager and by 1914 was taking evening classes at the National Academy's School of Fine Arts, New York, while supporting himself as a baker. He began exhibiting at the Weyhe Gallery, New York during the 1920s, which provided him the funds to spend his first summer in the art colony of Woodstock, New York in 1926. Ganso would become among the leading Woodstock artists, along with George Ault, Doris Lee, Charles Rosen, Katherine Schmidt, Eugene Speicher, Alexander Brook, Louis Bouché, Konrad Cramer, Leon Kroll, and George Bellows. An avid draughtsman and printmaker, Ganso also produced lithographs and woodcuts under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration.
