Featured Artists' Biographies (G)

View a larger image, more information and other original etchings by Carl Albert Joseph Gaber.

Carl Albert Joseph Gaber (Stuttgart, 1866 - c. 1930): This artist came from an artistic family. His father (August Gaber) was a well known woodcut artist while his grand-father (Ludwig Richter) was a famous 19th century painter. Joseph Gaber received instructions from both of these masters as well as from Herzog Gunter, in Schleswig-Holstein. Along with producing many fine etchings, Gaber extensively traveled and worked in many parts of the world, including remote locations in both South America and Africa. During the First World War he accepted the post of Professor of Art at his native Stuttgart Academy.

In both Germany and America, Gaber became best known for his fine colour etchings of animal studies, most notably those of dogs. Pekinese were a particular favoured subject of the artist and during the early 1920's he created at least ten colour etchings on this delightful subject.

View a larger image, more information and other original works of art by Emil Ganso.

Emil Ganso (Halberstadt, Germany, 1895 - New York, 1941): An accomplished painter, wood engraver, lithographer and etcher, Emil Ganso was a master of both landscapes and nudes. Born in Germany, Ganso was forced to earn his living from early childhood. He thus became a baker and continued that trade when he arrived in the United States in 1912. Struggling to survive, Ganso was mainly self-taught in art with the exception of a three week night course at the National Academy. A large turning point in his career came during the First World War when he met and was befriended by the famous Bulgarian/French artist, Jules Pascin (1885-1930). Escaping persecution from the War, Pascin lived in New York until 1920. During his spare hours, Ganso often worked in Pascin's studio, painting and drawing his models.

During the following years Ganso created many brilliant works of art in all graphic media. In 1933 he won the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship which allowed him to travel and work in Europe for a period of one year. Upon his return he joined the well known Woodstock community of artists in New York State. Today, Ganso's original prints and drawings are included in most major American collections, such as, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Woodstock Artists Association, the Butler Institute of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

View a larger image, more information and other original etchings by Edmund Henry Garrett.

Edmund Henry Garrett (Albany, NY., 1853 - Nedham, MA., 1929): A well known nineteenth century American painter, etcher and illustrator, studied art at the Academie Julien in Paris under Jean Paul Laurens, Boulanger and Lefebvre. After residing in France for a period of about five years he returned to America and established a successful studio in Boston. During the last two decades of the nineteenth century, Garrett's paintings and etchings were widely exhibited throughout the United States and in France at the Paris Salon.

Edmund Henry Garrett's first original prints were in the medium of wood engraving. Under the advice of Robert Swain Gifford (1840-1905), he created his first etching in 1879. Specializing in both architectural views and landscapes, Garrett's ensuing etchings dealt mainly with areas around Boston.

View a larger image, more information and other original works of art by Arthur Joseph Gaskin.

Arthur Joseph Gaskin (Birmingham, England, 1862 - 1928): A major illustrator, portraitist, painter and designer during the last decade of the nineteenth century, Arthur Joseph Gaskin was a leading force of what was called 'the Birmingham School'. This was an influential group of artists who both allied their style of illustration to and worked with William Morris at the famous Kelmscott Press. Other prominent artists in this movement included Louis Fairfax Muckley, E. H. New and C. M. Gere.

Gaskin studied art at the Birmingham School of Art and later taught there. During the early 1880's, his classmates and companions were such fellow artists as Frank Richards and Louis Fairfax Muckley. After his contact with William Morris, Gaskin applied himself to the study of decorative illustration and the crafts. In this latter light he also became an accomplished jewelry designer and later was appointed the Director of the Jewellers and Silversmiths School, Birmingham.

During his career, Arthur Gaskin was a frequent exhibitor at many major institutions, such as the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of British Artists. Among other major collections examples of his drawings are included at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Birmingham Art Gallery.

View a larger image, more information and other original etchings by Lucien-Marcelin Gautier.

Lucien-Marcelin Gautier (Aix-en-Provence, 1850 - Paris, c. 1915): A fine French etcher and designer, Lucien Gautier first studied art in Aix-en-Provence under Marius Reynaud. He then completed his education in Paris, under Gaucherel. He began his career there etching and engraving plates after the designs of Corot and Charles Jacque. By 1875, however, Gautier had emerged as an original etcher of note. His fine art received medals and awards in France in 1884, 1894 and 1900.

During his successful career Lucien-Marcelin Gautier both designed and etched views of Rome, Venice, London and elsewhere. Yet his name will always be most strongly associated with his wonderful views of Paris and other major French cities. In particular, during the 1880's, he was commissioned by the prestigious French publisher, L'Art, to create large etchings of Paris and Marseille.

View a larger image, more information and other original lithographs by 'Paul Gavarni' Hippolyte Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier.

'Paul Gavarni' Hippolyte Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier (Paris, 1804 - Auteuil, 1866) : This artist is much better known to the world as 'Gavarni' or 'Paul Gavarni -- is second only to Daumier as the greatest social commentator and satirical artist of nineteenth century France. Beginning his career as an engineer's assistant he began to exhibit signs of his future genius in the late 1820's as a fashion designer and illustrator. His talent for caricature and satirical art, however, led him to the editorship of Les Gens du Monde in 1835. He afterwards took charge of the influential periodical, Charivari, and was then forced to live and work in England in the late 1840's in order to avoid political persecution. One of the most clever caricaturists of any time, Gavarni's draughtsmanship was without equal. With the greatest economy of line he captured the follies and foibles of his age.

During the 1850's, Gavarni was commissioned by the Paris Journal to create satirical lithographs on a daily basis. This gave birth to his greatest series, such as, D'Apres Nature, Masques et Visages and Physionomies Parisiennes. Vous etes une Veuve! hails from D'Apres Nature which many scholars hold in high esteem. Here we are treated to an entire spectrum of both telling and comic scenes and situations when Paul Gavarni's ability was at its peak.

View a larger image and more information for Esther Gentle Rattner's lithogaph, "People".

Esther Gentle Rattner (New York, 1905 - 1998): A fine New York City sculptor, painter and printmaker, Esther Gentle studied art at the Art Students League of New York. Her first exhibited works of art were representational in nature, but by the end of the Second World War she emerged as one of New York's leading abstractionists. In this regard, she was partly influenced by the famous abstract painter, Abraham Rattner (1895-1978), whom she married at this time. Even in these early years, however, her much more sculptural style departed noticeably from the imagery of her husband.

During the 1950's, Esther Gentle Rattner was important not only as an artist of the New York scene but as a gallery director. The Esther Gentle Gallery opened in Manhattan in 1951. Among its more important shows was a 1954 one man exhibition of the watercolours and paintings of her friend, the author, Henry Miller.

Today the largest collection of Gentle's sculptures, lithographs and silk-screens is found at the St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida. People is an outstanding original example of her lithographic art.

View a larger image, more information and other original etchings by Sir Ernest George.

Sir Ernest George (London, 1839 - 1922): An eminent nineteenth century architect, Sir Ernest George was also highly respected for his original etchings and watercolours. He studied art and architecture at the Royal Academy Schools, London, and created his first set of etchings in 1873 ('Etchings on the Moselle'). During the following years George etched and painted many fine architectural views in France, Holland, Belgium, Germany and Italy.

Ernest George was a full member of the Royal Society of Etchers and Engravers (1881), the Royal British Artists (1889) and the prestigious Royal Academy (1917). He was also knighted for his contributions to art and architecture in 1912. Both the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, own collections of his etchings.

View a larger image and more information for Yankel Ginzburg's original silkscreen, "Life in The Fast Lane".

Yankel Ginzburg: (Born, Russia, 1945 - Resides, New York): A leading contemporary American painter and printmaker, Yankel Ginzburg came to New York at a young age. His first published prints date from 1970. Most of his earlier art is in the medium of lithography. By 1980, however, Ginzburg had turned almost completely to the medium of the silk-screen, finding it to be the most suitable method to shape the solid forms and colours which have characterized his art. Art scholars have termed Ginzburg's large and impressive silk-screen prints as both 'post cubist' and 'constructivist'.

Since 1975, Ginzburg's art has been included in many major national and international exhibitions. He has also been featured in one man shows in both New York and Washington. Life in the Fast Lane is one of the artist's largest and most highly respected works of original silk-screen art.

View a larger image and more information for Norbert Goeneutte's original etching, "Harbour Scene"

Norbert Goeneutte (Paris, 1854 - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1894): Although he lived a short life, Norbert Goeneutte is rightly considered a major artist of France during the era of ism. Goeneutte studied art at Paris's Ecole des Beaux-Arts, under both Isidore Pils and Henri Lehmann. He soon, however, grew dissatisfied with formal training and moved to the Paris suburb of Montmarte. There he became friends with Renoir, for whom he both modeled and painted. At this time he also met another artist, Marcellin Desboutin, who sparked his lifelong interest in the art of engraving and etching.

Goeneutte first exhibited his art at the Paris Salon in 1876 and was an annual exhibitor there until his untimely death in 1894. He was also closely associated with such artists as Manet, Degas and Renoir, but despite their insistence, chose not to exhibit with the ists.

Etching and engraving was as important to Goeneutte as painting. In total his graphic oeuvre consists of almost one hundred and fifty original etchings, drypoints and lithographs. Most deal with landscapes and town views, especially scenes from the lives of the working classes. And, although he traveled to London (1880), Rotterdam (1887) and Venice (1890), the large majority of his art depicts views of Paris and other French centres. Goeneutte also created etchings for a portfolio entitled, Paris a l'eau forte (1889) and for Emile Zola's novel, La Terre. Today his important art is included in many major collections such as the Musee d'Orsay, the San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts, the Tate Gallery and the National Gallery, London.

View a larger image, more information and other original works of art by Sergio Gonzalez Tornero.

Sergio Gonzalez Tornero (Santiago, Chile, 1927 - Lives, New York): One of South America's finest modern printmakers, Sergio Gonzalez-Tornero first studied art in both Chile and Brazil before finishing his education at the Slade School of Art, London (1958) and with the famous printmaker, Stanley William Hayter, at Atelier !7, in Paris (1959-1962). Several years later the artist moved to the United States.

During the past forty years, Gonzalez-Tornero's original etchings and aquatints have been the subject of over 44 one man exhibitions in Chile, the United States, Canada, Italy, Germany and France. He has received twenty-two awards for his art, including the UNESCO prize at the International Biennial in Crakow, Poland in 1966, and the first prize at the 10th Biennial of Prints from Latin America and the Caribbean, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1993. Public Collections in France, England, Poland, Austria, Switzerland and Mexico all include examples of his etchings and engravings in their permanent collections. His art is also represented in both the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

View a larger image and more information for Lorrie Goulet's original lithograph, Dance of Spring.

Lorrie Goulet (Riverdale, New York, Born, 1925): One of America's foremost twentieth century sculptors, Lorrie Goulet first studied art techniques as a child under Amiee Voorhees at the Inwood Pottery Studios (1932-36). Before turning twenty she also studied at Black Mountain College, North Carolina, under Josef Albers (1943-45). At the same time she was apprenticed to the sculptor, Jose de Creeft, whom she would later marry.

Lorrie Goulet's first major solo exhibition took place in 1948 at the Clay Club Sculpture Center, New York City. During the following years exhibitions of her sculpture, drawings and lithographs took place at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the American Federation of Art as well as in international exhibitions in Algiers, Barcelona and Zagreb. Her art is today included in collections such as the New Jersey State Museum, the New York Public Library and the Hirshorn Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC. Lorrie Goulet is a member of the American Sculptors Guild and a founding member of the Audubon Artists.

View a larger image and more information for Eliza Pratt Greatorex's original etching, Pond At Ceernay-La-Ville.

Eliza Pratt Greatorex (Manor Hamilton, Ireland, 1820 - Paris, 1897): Although she was born in Ireland and died in France, the greatest part of Eliza Greatorex's life was spent in America. She came to New York City in 1840 and married a prominent organist. At the age of thirty-eight, however, she was left a widow and began to support herself and her family as a painter, etcher, illustrator and teacher. To this end she studied painting under William Hart, in New York, and under Emile Lambinet, in Paris (1861-1862).

Her first accomplishments were as a pen and ink illustrator and as a painter. Eliza Pratt Greatorex's initial instructions in etching were under Charles Henri Toussaint (Paris, 1878-1879). From that point on she created a number of fine landscape and city views, both in France and in America. These were exhibited at the prestigious Paris Salon from 1881 to 1894, as well as in Berlin and London.

View a larger image, more information and other original works of art for Marion Greenwood.

Marion Greenwood (Brooklyn, 1909 - Woodstock, NY., 1970): Marion Greenwood is arguably one of America's greatest twentieth century women artists. She left high school at the age of fifteen to study painting and printmaking at the Art Students League of New York, under John Sloan and George Bridgman (1924-1928). She then completed her education at the Academie Colarossi, in Paris. Greenwood also took lessons in lithography from Emil Ganso (1929-1930).

At the age of twenty-two, Greenwood traveled to the Southwest to paint Navajo Indians. A year later she was living and working in Mexico, where her murals brought her work to the attention of the Mexican President and of Mexico's most famous artist, Orozco. Greenwood's work in Mexico made her reputation in the United States, and when she returned to America in 1936 the government frequently commissioned her for public murals.

Marion Greenwood was a Professor of Art at the University of Tennessee (1954-1955) and at Syracuse University (1965). She was elected a full member of the prestigious National Academy of Design in 1959. Today her paintings and lithographs are included in the following collections; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Woodstock Artists Association, Georgia Museum of Art, The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, Yale University Art Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

View a larger image and more information for Reginald Leslie Grooms's original lithograph, The Scissors #11.

Reginald Leslie Grooms (Cincinnati, Ohio, 1900 - c. 1975): One of Cincinnati's most distinguished artists and art educators, Reginald Leslie Grooms began his education at the age of seventeen at the Cincinnati Art Academy. He remained there five years studying under such instructors as John Weis, James Hopkins and William Hentschell. In 1923 Grooms left for Paris to study at the Academie Julian, under Jules Pages and Paul Albert Laurens. One of his fellow American classmates was Grant Wood. While in Paris, Grooms was invited to exhibit his paintings at the Spring Salons held at the Grande Palais in both 1924 and 1925. He was the youngest American artist to receive this distinction.

During his career Grooms exhibited his paintings and original prints at such major venues as the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Butler Art Institute, the Pan American fine Arts Exhibit (1935), the New York World's Fair, the San Francisco World's Fair (1939) and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He was a full member of the Scarab Club, the American Society for Aesthetics, the Ohio Watercolor Society and the Cincinnati Art Club.

View a larger image, more information and other original works of art by Chaim Gross.

Chaim Gross (Kolomea, Austria, 1904 - New York, 1991): Those acquainted with the history of modern sculpture will immediately recognize the name of Chaim Gross. Gross, however, was also a highly esteemed printmaker, particularly in the field of original lithography. Coming to the United States in 1921, Gross studied at the Educational Alliance in New York and at the Art Students League, under Robert Laurent. Gross began exhibiting both his sculpture and graphic art in 1935 at major expositions in Philadelphia and New York. During the following years his art was regularly included in major contemporary shows with the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Chicago Art Institute, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and at the prestigious Whitney Museum.

After the Second World War, Gross's sculptures were commissioned world wide by such institutions as the Main Post Office, Washington, DC, the Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem, and the Temple Shaaray Tefila, New York. He was also the President of the Sculptors Guild of America and a full member of Artists Equity, the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. For a number of years, Chaim Gross was also influential as a professor of printmaking and sculpture in New York at both the Educational Alliance and at the New School for Social Research.

View a larger image, more information and other original works of art by Anthony Gross.

Anthony Gross (Dulwich, London, 1905 - Le Boulve, France, 1984): One of England's most famous artists of the twentieth century, Anthony Gross achieved international recognition for his etchings, engravings and paintings. His graphic oeuvre consists of almost four hundred catalogued prints, created from 1920 to 1984.

Anthony Gross's formal artistic education began in 1923 when he entered the Slade School, under Professor Henry Tonks. Also at this time he studied etching techniques under W. P. Robins. Later that year, Gross moved to Paris to study engraving under Charles Waltner at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. At this time he also created and published over sixteen etchings (most dealing with subjects in Normandy) which were highly received in both France and England. In 1926 Gross completed his education by studying printing techniques under Joseph Hecht, in Paris.

Gross's original etchings and engravings include, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum, London, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Cabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe, Rome, the Louvre, Paris, the Smithsonian Institute and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.