Village at Night

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Type: Prints(Opens in new tab)
Date: n.d.
Accession number: 91.284.26
Maker: Emil Ganso(Opens in new tab) (American, 1895–1941)
Dimensions: 9 x 10 15/16 in. (22.9 x 27.8 cm.)
Medium: etching and aquatint on white wove paper
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gift of Mrs. Homer D. Crotty.
Department: American Art
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Ganso's work often explores subtle contrasts of black and white. He used aquatint to produce an atmospheric quality that resembles painterly effects in this image of a quiet village on a snowy night. The lone figure is perhaps a stand-in for the artist, who spent his first years as an immigrant in America isolated by culture and language.

Emil Ganso came to the United States from Germany in 1912. He worked as a baker while attending classes at the National Academy of Design. In 1924 he brought his work to the Weyhe Gallery, where he impressed its director, Carl Zigrosser. Ganso became renowned for his technical prowess in nearly all printmaking media and taught printmaking until his death in 1941.

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