Artist Monograph

Emil Ganso, American

American, 1895–1941

Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Etching	14	53.8%
Lithography	4	15.4%
Other Media	3	11.5%
Engraving	3	11.5%
Drawing	2	7.7%

Production by Decade

1920s

1930s

1940s

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	15	62.5%
Medium (30–100 cm)	9	37.5%

Range: 12.0 cm → 53.3 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1940	24
1949	1
1975	1

American Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 26 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Atelier Pascin Drawing Acc. 1362.1974	(n.d.)	Transfer drawing	10 x 7 7/8" (25.4 x 20.0 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Perls Galleries in memory of Robert Laurent
Bathers Print Acc. 888.1940	1926	Lithograph	composition (irreg.): 12 9/16 × 12 1/16" (31.9 × 30.6 cm); sheet: 14 11/16 × 13 1/8" (37.3 × 33.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Halberstadt Print Acc. 877.1940	1927	Etching and aquatint with roulette	plate: 9 15/16 × 7 1/16" (25.3 × 18 cm); sheet: 16 9/16 × 13" (42 × 33 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Nude Reclining Print Acc. 884.1940	1927	Lithograph	composition (irreg.): 13 11/16 × 18" (34.8 × 45.7 cm); sheet: 14 15/16 × 19 1/4" (37.9 × 48.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Self Portrait (No. 2) Print Acc. 880.1940	1928	Etching and drypoint	composition: 6 15/16 × 5 7/16" (17.6 × 13.8 cm); sheet: 13 × 9 3/4" (33 × 24.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Boat Landing Print Acc. 878.1940	1929	Lithograph	⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Café au Rendez-vous, Quincy-Ségy (Seine-et-Marne, France) Print Acc. 889.1940	1929–30	Etching and aquatint with roulette	plate: 8 15/16 × 11 1/2" (22.7 × 29.2 cm); sheet: 14 13/16 × 22 1/16" (37.7 × 56 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Montigny Print Acc. 897.1940	1929	Etching, aquatint, and drypoint with roulette	plate: 7 13/16 × 9 11/16" (19.9 × 24.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Nude Print Acc. 898.1940	1929–30	Etching, drypoint, and aquatint with roulette	plate: 11 5/16 × 7 7/16" (28.7 × 18.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Quincy-Ségy, Winter Print Acc. 892.1940	1929	Aquatint, etching, and drypoint with roulette	plate: 7 13/16 x 9 11/16" (19.8 x 24.6 cm); sheet: 12 3/16 × 16 5/8" (30.9 × 42.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Studio Print Acc. 887.1940	1929	Etching and drypoint	plate: 6 3/16 × 7 7/16" (15.7 × 18.9 cm); sheet: 10 3/8 × 14" (26.4 × 35.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Trees Print Acc. 896.1940	1929	Etching, aquatint, and drypoint with roulette	plate: 8 11/16 × 10 1/16" (22 × 25.5 cm); sheet: 13 11/16 × 19 11/16" (34.7 × 50 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Paris Night Print Acc. 893.1940	1930	Etching, aquatint, engraving, and drypoint with roulette	plate: 14 15/16 × 11 1/4" (37.9 × 28.5 cm); sheet: 20 1/16 × 14 7/8" (50.9 × 37.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Salzwedel Print Acc. 879.1940	1930	Aquatint with drypoint	plate: 9 × 11 1/4" (22.8 × 28.5 cm); sheet: 11 13/16 × 15 1/2" (30 × 39.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Self Portrait with Model Print Acc. 886.1940	1930	Wood engraving	composition: 9 13/16 × 7 15/16" (25 × 20.2 cm); sheet: 14 9/16 × 10 13/16" (37 × 27.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Still Life with Bottle Print Acc. 883.1940	1930	Wood engraving	composition: 12 1/16 × 10 1/16" (30.6 × 25.5 cm); sheet (irreg.): 16 3/8 × 13 7/16" (41.6 × 34.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Still Life with Cranach Painting Print Acc. 894.1940	1930	Etching with roulette	plate: 11 7/8 × 9 15/16" (30.1 × 25.2 cm); sheet: 15 7/8 × 12 5/8" (40.4 × 32.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Two Peasant Girls Print Acc. 876.1940	1930	Etching	Plate 9 7/8 x 11 15/16" (25.0 x 30.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Portrait of Pascin Print Acc. 61.1949	c. 1931	Wood engraving	composition: 4 3/4 × 3" (12 × 7.6 cm); sheet (irreg.): 10 1/4 × 6 5/16" (26 × 16 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Mrs. Edith G. Halpert
Sunny Room Print Acc. 895.1940	1931	Lithograph	composition (irreg.): 8 3/8 × 10" (21.3 × 25.4 cm); sheet: 11 9/16 × 14" (29.4 × 35.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Girl in Bath Print Acc. 885.1940	c. 1932	Etching, aquatint, and drypoint with roulette	⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Nude in Chemise Drawing Acc. 158.1940	1932	Charcoal pencil and pastel on paper	16 1/4 x 21" (41.3 x 53.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Given anonymously
Winter Print Acc. 899.1940	1932–34	Pochoir	composition: 10 15/16 x 15 1/16" (27.8 x 38.2 cm); sheet: 13 5/8 x 18 5/16" (34.6 x 46.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Silo in Winter Print Acc. 882.1940	1933	Etching and aquatint	plate: 8 3/4 x 10 15/16" (22.3 x 27.8 cm); sheet: 12 5/16 × 14 13/16" (31.2 × 37.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Summer Print Acc. 900.1940	1933	Pochoir	composition: 10 7/8 × 15" (27.6 × 38.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Road to Saugerties Print Acc. 881.1940	1940	Etching and aquatint	plate: 8 7/8 × 10 7/8" (22.6 × 27.6 cm); sheet: 11 9/16 × 15 11/16" (29.3 × 39.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller