Jump to content

Peter Ganine: Difference between revisions

Edit links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browse history interactively
← Previous edit
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
m I don't know how you'd "upcapsize" anything :-). The two-page patent (http://www.google.com/patents/USD153514) doesn't have any "capsize" words in it, by the way.
No edit summary
 
(26 intermediate revisions by 13 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{short description|Russian–American sculptor}}
{{Infobox artist
{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix =
| honorific_prefix =
| name = Peter Ganine
| name = Peter Ganine
Line 10: Line 11:
| caption =
| caption =
| birth_name = Pierre Ganine
| birth_name = Pierre Ganine
| birth_date = {{birth date|1900|10|11}}<ref name="askart">{{cite web |url = http://www.askart.com/askart/g/peter_ganine/peter_ganine.aspx |title = Peter Ganine – Artist, Fine Art, Auction Records, Prices, Biography for Peter Ganine |website = AskART |accessdate=23 May 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.invaluable.com/artist/ganine-peter-1ee0p8duim |title = Peter Ganine Biography, Works of Art, Auction Results |website = Invaluable |accessdate=23 May 2014}}</ref>
| birth_date = {{birth date|1900|10|11}}<ref name="askart">{{cite web |url = http://www.askart.com/askart/g/peter_ganine/peter_ganine.aspx |title = Peter Ganine – Artist, Fine Art, Auction Records, Prices, Biography for Peter Ganine |website = AskART |access-date=23 May 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.invaluable.com/artist/ganine-peter-1ee0p8duim |title = Peter Ganine Biography, Works of Art, Auction Results |website = Invaluable |access-date=23 May 2014}}</ref>
| birth_place = [[Tbilisi|Tiflis]], [[Russia]]<ref name="askart" />
| birth_place = [[Tbilisi|Tiflis]], [[Russia]]<ref name="askart" />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1974|08|11|1900|10|11}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1974|08|11|1900|10|11}}
| death_place = [[Hollywood]], California, U.S.<ref name="latimesobit" />
| death_place = [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]], California, U.S.<ref name="latimesobit" />
| resting_place =
| resting_place =
| resting_place_coordinates = <!-- {{Coord|LAT|LON|type:landmark|display=inline,title}} -->
| resting_place_coordinates = <!-- {{Coord|LAT|LON|type:landmark|display=inline,title}} -->
| nationality = Russian-American
| nationality = Russian-American
| spouse = [[Marguerite Churchill]] (1954–?)<br>Karin (?–1974)<ref name="latimesobit">{{cite news |last= |first= |date=13 August 1974 |title=Peter Ganine; L.A. Sculptor |url= |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |location=Los Angeles, California |page=A16 |accessdate=26 May 2014}}</ref>
| spouse = [[Marguerite Churchill]] (1954–?)<br />Karin (?–1974)<ref name="latimesobit">{{cite news |date=13 August 1974 |title=Peter Ganine; L.A. Sculptor |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |location=Los Angeles, California |page=A16 }}</ref>
| field =
| training =
| alma_mater = [[Corcoran Gallery of Art]]
| alma_mater = [[Corcoran Gallery of Art]]
| movement =
| movement =
| works =
| works =
| patrons =
| awards =
| awards =
| memorials =
| elected =
| website = <!-- {{URL|Example.com}} -->
| website = <!-- {{URL|Example.com}} -->
| daao_record = <!-- {{daao.org.au/bio/person-name/biography}} -->
| bgcolour =
| module =
| module =
| signature = Peter Ganine signature.svg
}}
}}


'''Peter Ganine''' (October 11, 1900{{spaced ndash}}August 11, 1974) was a Russian-American sculptor best known for his work in ceramics and his [[Chess piece|chess sets]].
'''Peter Ganine''' (October 11, 1900{{spaced ndash}}August 11, 1974) was a Georgian-Russian-American sculptor best known for his work in ceramics and his [[Chess piece|chess sets]].


Ganine began his art studies in Russia. He spent five years as a trader in the Belgian Congo<ref name="cityside">{{cite news |last=Sherman |first=Gene |date=22 May 1957 |title=Cityside with Gene Sherman |url= |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |location=Los Angeles, California |page=2 |accessdate=26 May 2014}}</ref> before coming to the US in 1931,<ref>{{cite book |last=Perry |first=Barbara |date=15 May 1989 |title=American Ceramics: The Collection of Everson Museum of Art|publisher=Rizzoli|page=138|ISBN=0847810259}}</ref> on a scholarship to [[Corcoran Gallery of Art]] in Washington, D.C.<ref name="latimesobit" /> He settled in Hollywood in 1932, where he lived until his death.<ref name="askart" /><ref name="cityside" /><ref name="bs1" /> His work was championed by longtime [[Los Angeles Times]] art editor and critic Arthur Millier.<ref name="southland" /><ref name="artthisweek" /><ref name="millier1" /><ref name="millier2" /><ref name="millier3" /><ref name="millier4" />
Ganine began his art studies in Russia. He spent five years as a trader in the Belgian Congo<ref name="cityside">{{cite news |last=Sherman |first=Gene |date=22 May 1957 |title=Cityside with Gene Sherman |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |location=Los Angeles, California |page=2 }}</ref> before coming to the US in 1931,<ref>{{cite book|last=Perry|first=Barbara|date=15 May 1989|title=American Ceramics: The Collection of Everson Museum of Art|publisher=Rizzoli|page=[https://archive.org/details/americanceramics0000ever/page/138 138]|isbn=978-0-8478-1025-3|url=https://archive.org/details/americanceramics0000ever/page/138}}</ref> on a scholarship to [[Corcoran Gallery of Art]] in Washington, D.C.<ref name="latimesobit" /> He settled in Hollywood in 1932, where he lived until his death.<ref name="askart" /><ref name="cityside" /><ref name="bs1" /> His work was championed by longtime ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' art editor and critic Arthur Millier.<ref name="southland" /><ref name="artthisweek" /><ref name="millier1" /><ref name="millier2" /><ref name="millier3" /><ref name="millier4" />


He served as an aircraft patternmaker during [[World War II]].<ref name="cityside" />
He served as an aircraft patternmaker during [[World War II]].<ref name="cityside" />


The subjects of Ganine's sculptures were largely people or animals.<ref name="latimesobit" /><ref name="chicago">{{cite news |last= |first= |date=14 August 1974 |title=Deaths Elsewhere |url= |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |location=Chicago, Illinois |page=C16 |accessdate=26 May 2014}}</ref><ref name="whalepatent">{{ cite patent | country = US | number = 153426 | status = patent | title = Floating toy | pubdate = 19 April 1949 | fdate = 16 January 1948 | invent1 = Peter Ganine }}</ref><ref name="duckpatent">{{ cite patent | country = US | number = 153514 | status = patent | title = Design for a toy duck | pubdate = 26 April 1949 | fdate = 29 December 1947 | invent1 = Peter Ganine }}</ref><ref>Ganine's various patents consistently show the figures of animals in the designs:
The subjects of Ganine's sculptures were largely people or animals.<ref name="latimesobit" /><ref name="chicago">{{cite news |date=14 August 1974 |title=Deaths Elsewhere |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |location=Chicago, Illinois |page=C16 }}</ref><ref name="whalepatent">{{ cite patent | country = US | number = 153426 | status = patent | title = Floating toy | pubdate = 19 April 1949 | fdate = 16 January 1948 | invent1 = Peter Ganine }}</ref><ref name="duckpatent">{{ cite patent | country = US | number = 153514 | status = patent | title = Design for a toy duck | pubdate = 26 April 1949 | fdate = 29 December 1947 | invent1 = Peter Ganine }}</ref><ref>Ganine's various patents consistently show the figures of animals in the designs:
* {{ cite patent | country = US | number = 155702 | status = patent | title = Design for a toy animal figure | pubdate = 25 October 1949 | fdate = 4 September 1948 | invent1 = Peter Ganine }}
* {{ cite patent | country = US | number = 155702 | status = patent | title = Design for a toy animal figure | pubdate = 25 October 1949 | fdate = 4 September 1948 | invent1 = Peter Ganine }}
* {{ cite patent | country = US | number = 158738 | status = patent | title = Toy animal figure | pubdate = 30 May 1950 | fdate = 11 July 1949 | invent1 = Peter Ganine }}
* {{ cite patent | country = US | number = 158738 | status = patent | title = Toy animal figure | pubdate = 30 May 1950 | fdate = 11 July 1949 | invent1 = Peter Ganine }}
Line 46: Line 41:
* {{ cite patent | country = US | number = 159796 | status = patent | title = Animal figure | pubdate = 22 August 1950 | fdate = 21 January 1950 | invent1 = Peter Ganine }}
* {{ cite patent | country = US | number = 159796 | status = patent | title = Animal figure | pubdate = 22 August 1950 | fdate = 21 January 1950 | invent1 = Peter Ganine }}
* {{ cite patent | country = US | number = 185494 | status = patent | title = Bracket for a bathroom fixture | pubdate = 16 June 1959 | fdate = 12 February 1959 | invent1 = Peter Ganine }}
* {{ cite patent | country = US | number = 185494 | status = patent | title = Bracket for a bathroom fixture | pubdate = 16 June 1959 | fdate = 12 February 1959 | invent1 = Peter Ganine }}
* {{ cite patent | country = US | number = 3064365 | status = patent | title = Modeling device | pubdate = 20 November 1962 | fdate = 18 April 1960 | invent1 = Peter Ganine }}</ref> He patented many of his animal sculptures, which were then reproduced in plastic and sold inexpensively.<ref name="latimesobit" /><ref name="cityside" /><ref name="chicago" /> His most popular designs were a whale, which won a prize from the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art,<ref name="cityside" /><ref name="whalepatent" /> and an "uncapsizeable duck", of which over 50,000,000 were sold.<ref name="latimesobit" /><ref name="duckpatent" /> When Ganine gave human faces to chess pieces, he introduced "first major change of design for chess sets in more than a century."<ref>{{cite news |last=Hoadley|first=Raymond|date=15 September 1957 |title=The Week in Business|newspaper=[[New York Herald Tribune]]|location=New York, New York|page=A5 |accessdate=23 May 2014}}</ref>
* {{ cite patent | country = US | number = 3064365 | status = patent | title = Modeling device | pubdate = 20 November 1962 | fdate = 18 April 1960 | invent1 = Peter Ganine }}</ref> He patented many of his animal sculptures, which were then reproduced in plastic and sold inexpensively.<ref name="latimesobit" /><ref name="cityside" /><ref name="chicago" /> His most popular designs were a whale, which won a prize from the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art,<ref name="cityside" /><ref name="whalepatent" /> and an "[[Rubber duck|uncapsizeable duck]]", of which over 50,000,000 were sold.<ref name="latimesobit" /><ref name="duckpatent" /> When Ganine gave human faces to chess pieces, he introduced "first major change of design for chess sets in more than a century."<ref>{{cite news |last=Hoadley|first=Raymond|date=15 September 1957 |title=The Week in Business|newspaper=[[New York Herald Tribune]]|location=New York, New York|page=A5 }}</ref>


== Personal life ==
== Personal life ==
Ganine married actress [[Marguerite Churchill]] on June 5, 1954.<ref>California Marriage Index, 1949–1959</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Hopper |first=Hedda |date=5 June 1954 |title=Marguerite Churchill to Be Wed – Former film star Marguerite Churchill will marry Peter Ganine at the Russian Orthodox Church here |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |location=Los Angeles, California |accessdate=23 May 2014 | page=A1}}</ref> He later married a woman named Karin.<ref name="latimesobit"/>
Ganine married actress [[Marguerite Churchill]] on June 5, 1954.<ref>California Marriage Index, 1949–1959</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Hopper |first=Hedda |date=5 June 1954 |title=Marguerite Churchill to Be Wed – Former film star Marguerite Churchill will marry Peter Ganine at the Russian Orthodox Church here |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |location=Los Angeles, California | page=A1}}</ref> He later married a woman named Karin.<ref name="latimesobit" />


== Works ==
== Works ==
* ''Superba Gothic'' chess set (c.1930s)<ref>{{cite journal |date=29 January 1940 |title=Chessmen of Every Age and Nation are among World's Art Masterpieces |newspaper=[[Life (magazine)|Life]] |accessdate=23 May 2014 | pages=48–49}}</ref>
* ''Superba Gothic'' chess set (c.1930s)<ref>{{cite journal |date=29 January 1940 |title=Chessmen of Every Age and Nation are among World's Art Masterpieces |newspaper=[[Life (magazine)|Life]] | pages=48–49}}</ref>
* ''Colt'' sculpture (c.1939)<ref name="invaluable">{{cite web |url = http://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/peter-ganine-145-c-j57y61jmah |title = Peter Ganine – by Bonhams |website = Invaluable |accessdate=23 May 2014}}</ref>
* ''Colt'' sculpture (c.1939)<ref name="invaluable">{{cite web |url = http://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/peter-ganine-145-c-j57y61jmah |title = Peter Ganine – by Bonhams |website = Invaluable |access-date=23 May 2014}}</ref>
* ''Baby Centaur'' sculpture (c.1940)<ref name="bs1">{{cite news |last= |first= |date=13 October 1940 |title=Brush Strokes |url= |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |location=Los Angeles, California |page=C8 |accessdate=26 May 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=29 October 1940 |title=Pictures instead of Wall Paper |newspaper=[[The Christian Science Monitor]] |location=Boston, Massachusetts |page=6 |accessdate=23 May 2014}}</ref><ref name="rouault">{{cite news |last= |first= |date=27 October 1940 |title=Here, There, Elsewhere: Rouault Ceramics Allied Posters |url= |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |location=New York, New York |page=138 |accessdate=26 May 2014}}</ref>
* ''Baby Centaur'' sculpture (c.1940)<ref name="bs1">{{cite news |date=13 October 1940 |title=Brush Strokes |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |location=Los Angeles, California |page=C8 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=29 October 1940 |title=Pictures instead of Wall Paper |newspaper=[[The Christian Science Monitor]] |location=Boston, Massachusetts |page=6 }}</ref><ref name="rouault">{{cite news |date=27 October 1940 |title=Here, There, Elsewhere: Rouault Ceramics Allied Posters |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |location=New York, New York |page=138 }}</ref>
* ''Beer Mug'' sculpture (c.1941)<ref name="southland">{{cite news |last=Millier |first=Arthur |date=11 January 1942 |title=Two Good Sculptors Show Their Works in Southland |url= |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |location=Los Angeles, California |page=C6 |accessdate=26 May 2014}}</ref>
* ''Beer Mug'' sculpture (c.1941)<ref name="southland">{{cite news |last=Millier |first=Arthur |date=11 January 1942 |title=Two Good Sculptors Show Their Works in Southland |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |location=Los Angeles, California |page=C6 }}</ref>
* ''Rudolph'' sculpture of a [[dachshund]] (c.1941)<ref name="southland" />
* ''Rudolph'' sculpture of a [[dachshund]] (c.1941)<ref name="southland" />
* ''Bull'' sculpture (c.1941)<ref name="southland" />
* ''Bull'' sculpture (c.1941)<ref name="southland" />
* ''Dog'' sculpture (c.1944)<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.californiaartclub.org/ebell-1944/ |title = Ebell Salon of Art (1944) |website = California Art Club |accessdate=23 May 2014}}</ref>
* ''Dog'' sculpture (c.1944)<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.californiaartclub.org/ebell-1944/ |title = Ebell Salon of Art (1944) |website = California Art Club |access-date=23 May 2014}}</ref>
* ''Why'' sculpture (c.1944)<ref name="artthisweek">{{cite news |last=Millier |first=Arthur |date=10 December 1944 |title=Sanity Society's Exhibits Stress Conventional |url= |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |location=Los Angeles, California |page=B5 |accessdate=26 May 2014}}</ref>
* ''Why'' sculpture (c.1944)<ref name="artthisweek">{{cite news |last=Millier |first=Arthur |date=10 December 1944 |title=Sanity Society's Exhibits Stress Conventional |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |location=Los Angeles, California |page=B5 }}</ref>
* ''Life Mask of [[Nicolai Fechin|Nicholai Fechin]]'' sculpture (1945)<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.shidoni.com/html/ArtistResults.asp?artist=628 |title = Peter Ganine |website = Shidoni |accessdate=23 May 2014}}</ref>
* ''Life Mask of [[Nicolai Fechin|Nicholai Fechin]]'' sculpture (1945)<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.shidoni.com/html/ArtistResults.asp?artist=628 |title = Peter Ganine |website = Shidoni |access-date = 23 May 2014 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304092907/http://www.shidoni.com/html/ArtistResults.asp?artist=628 |archive-date = 4 March 2016 |url-status = dead }}</ref>
* ''Happy Womanhood'' sculpture (c.1947) – model: [[Maureen O'Hara]]<ref>{{cite news |date=5 April 1947 |newspaper=[[Evening Independent|The Evening Independent]] |location=St. Petersburg, Florida |page=4 |accessdate=23 May 2014}}</ref>
* ''Happy Womanhood'' sculpture (c.1947) – model: [[Maureen O'Hara]]<ref>{{cite news |date=5 April 1947 |newspaper=[[Evening Independent|The Evening Independent]] |location=St. Petersburg, Florida |page=4 }}</ref>
* ''Hosanna'' sculpture of choir boys (c.1948)<ref name="millier1">{{cite news |last=Millier |first=Arthur |date=4 April 1948 |title=Southlanders Show Works on Spiritual Theme |url= |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |location=Los Angeles, California |page=C7 |accessdate=26 May 2014}}</ref>
* ''Hosanna'' sculpture of choir boys (c.1948)<ref name="millier1">{{cite news |last=Millier |first=Arthur |date=4 April 1948 |title=Southlanders Show Works on Spiritual Theme |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |location=Los Angeles, California |page=C7 }}</ref>
* ''Classic'' chess set (1961) – used in ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]]'' as the [[Three-dimensional chess#Star Trek Tri-Dimensional Chess|tri-dimensional chess set]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://danskthenightaway.blogspot.com/2011/10/vintage-chessmen-by-peter-ganine.html |title=Vintage Chessmen by Peter Ganine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=12 October 2011 |website=Dansk the Night Away |publisher= |accessdate=2 June 2014}}</ref>
* ''Classic'' chess set (1961) – the chess pieces from the Classic chess set were used in ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]]'' as part of the [[Three-dimensional chess#Star Trek Tri-Dimensional Chess|tri-dimensional chess set]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://danskthenightaway.blogspot.com/2011/10/vintage-chessmen-by-peter-ganine.html |title=Vintage Chessmen by Peter Ganine |date=12 October 2011 |website=Dansk the Night Away |access-date=2 June 2014}}</ref>
* ''Rearing Colt'' sculpture<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/peter-ganine-144-c-3cx893407q |title = Peter Ganine – by Bonhams |website = Invaluable |accessdate=23 May 2014}}</ref>
* ''Rearing Colt'' sculpture<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/peter-ganine-144-c-3cx893407q |title = Peter Ganine – by Bonhams |website = Invaluable |access-date=23 May 2014}}</ref>
* ''Portrait of [[Marguerite Churchill]]'' sculpture<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/pierre-peter-ganine-sculpture-1129-c-btjius3mrb |title = Pierre Peter Ganine Sculpture – by Bonhams |website = Invaluable |accessdate=23 May 2014}}</ref>
* ''Portrait of [[Marguerite Churchill]]'' sculpture<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/pierre-peter-ganine-sculpture-1129-c-btjius3mrb |title = Pierre Peter Ganine Sculpture – by Bonhams |website = Invaluable |access-date=23 May 2014}}</ref>


== Exhibitions ==
== Exhibitions ==
* 1938 – Group show at the California Art Club<ref name="millier2">{{cite news |last=Millier |first=Arthur |date=16 October 1938 |title=Brush Strokes |url= |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |location=Los Angeles, California |page=C7 |accessdate=26 May 2014}}</ref>
* 1938 – Group show at the California Art Club<ref name="millier2">{{cite news |last=Millier |first=Arthur |date=16 October 1938 |title=Brush Strokes |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |location=Los Angeles, California |page=C7 }}</ref>
* 1939 – [[Golden Gate International Exposition]]<ref name="invaluable" />
* 1939 – [[Golden Gate International Exposition]]<ref name="invaluable" />
* 1939 – The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego<ref name="millier3">{{cite news |last=Millier |first=Arthur |date=16 July 1939 |title=San Diego Presents Fine Show of Southland Art |url= |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |location=Los Angeles, California |volume= |issue= |page=C7 |accessdate=26 May 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=26 August 1939 |title=San Diego's Invitation Show |url= |newspaper=[[The Christian Science Monitor]] |location=Boston, Massachusetts |page=4 |accessdate=26 May 2014}}</ref>
* 1939 – The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego<ref name="millier3">{{cite news |last=Millier |first=Arthur |date=16 July 1939 |title=San Diego Presents Fine Show of Southland Art |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |location=Los Angeles, California |page=C7 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=26 August 1939 |title=San Diego's Invitation Show |newspaper=[[The Christian Science Monitor]] |location=Boston, Massachusetts |page=4 }}</ref>
* 1940 – National Ceramic Exhibition at Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, where won first prize in ceramic sculpture for ''Baby Centaur''<ref name="bs1" /><ref name="rouault" />
* 1940 – National Ceramic Exhibition at Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, where he won first prize in ceramic sculpture for ''Baby Centaur''<ref name="bs1" /><ref name="rouault" />
* 1942 – "Artist of the Month" for January, solo show at the Los Angeles County Museum<ref name="millier4">{{cite news |last=Millier |first=Arthur |date=4 Jan 1942 |title=War Fails to Halt Exhibitions of art |url= |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |location=Los Angeles, California |page=C7 |accessdate=26 May 2014}}</ref>
* 1942 – "Artist of the Month" for January, solo show at the Los Angeles County Museum<ref name="millier4">{{cite news |last=Millier |first=Arthur |date=4 Jan 1942 |title=War Fails to Halt Exhibitions of Art |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |location=Los Angeles, California |page=C7 }}</ref>
* 1944 – Society for Sanity in Art's group show at Los Angeles County Museum<ref name="artthisweek"/>
* 1944 – Society for Sanity in Art's group show at Los Angeles County Museum<ref name="artthisweek" />
* 1960 – Group show at W. & J. Sloane Petite Galerie in Beverly Hills<ref>{{cite news |author=H.J.S. |date=10 July 1960 |title=Kirchner Relieves Season Doldrums |url= |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |location=Los Angeles, California |page=F7 |accessdate=26 May 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Fox |first=Christy |date=6 July 1960 |title=Honoring an Ex-President |url= |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |location=Los Angeles, California |page=A3 |accessdate=26 May 2014}}</ref>
* 1960 – Group show at W. & J. Sloane Petite Galerie in Beverly Hills<ref>{{cite news |author=H.J.S. |date=10 July 1960 |title=Kirchner Relieves Season Doldrums |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |location=Los Angeles, California |page=F7 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Fox |first=Christy |date=6 July 1960 |title=Honoring an Ex-President |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |location=Los Angeles, California |page=A3 }}</ref>


== References ==
== References ==
{{reflist|30em}}
{{reflist|30em}}


{{Persondata
| NAME = Ganine, Peter
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Ganine, Pierre
| SHORT DESCRIPTION = American sculptor
| DATE OF BIRTH = October 11, 1900
| PLACE OF BIRTH = Tiflis, Russia
| DATE OF DEATH = August 11, 1974
| PLACE OF DEATH = Hollywood, California, United States
}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ganine, Peter}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ganine, Peter}}
[[Category:1900 births]]
[[Category:1900 births]]
[[Category:1974 deaths]]
[[Category:1974 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century American sculptors]]
[[Category:20th-century American sculptors]]
[[Category:20th-century American male artists]]
[[Category:19th-century American sculptors]]
[[Category:19th-century American sculptors]]
[[Category:19th-century American male artists]]
[[Category:American male sculptors]]
[[Category:Soviet expatriates in the Belgian Congo]]
[[Category:Soviet emigrants to the United States]]

Latest revision as of 02:58, 26 March 2024

Peter Ganine
Born
Pierre Ganine

(1900-10-11)October 11, 1900[1][2]
Tiflis, Russia[1]
DiedAugust 11, 1974(1974-08-11) (aged 73)
Hollywood, California, U.S.[3]
NationalityRussian-American
Alma materCorcoran Gallery of Art
Spouse(s)Marguerite Churchill (1954–?)
Karin (?–1974)[3]
Signature

Peter Ganine (October 11, 1900 – August 11, 1974) was a Georgian-Russian-American sculptor best known for his work in ceramics and his chess sets.

Ganine began his art studies in Russia. He spent five years as a trader in the Belgian Congo[4] before coming to the US in 1931,[5] on a scholarship to Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.[3] He settled in Hollywood in 1932, where he lived until his death.[1][4][6] His work was championed by longtime Los Angeles Times art editor and critic Arthur Millier.[7][8][9][10][11][12]

He served as an aircraft patternmaker during World War II.[4]

The subjects of Ganine's sculptures were largely people or animals.[3][13][14][15][16] He patented many of his animal sculptures, which were then reproduced in plastic and sold inexpensively.[3][4][13] His most popular designs were a whale, which won a prize from the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art,[4][14] and an "uncapsizeable duck", of which over 50,000,000 were sold.[3][15] When Ganine gave human faces to chess pieces, he introduced "first major change of design for chess sets in more than a century."[17]

Personal life

[edit]

Ganine married actress Marguerite Churchill on June 5, 1954.[18][19] He later married a woman named Karin.[3]

Works

[edit]

Exhibitions

[edit]
  • 1938 – Group show at the California Art Club[10]
  • 1939 – Golden Gate International Exposition[21]
  • 1939 – The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego[11][30]
  • 1940 – National Ceramic Exhibition at Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, where he won first prize in ceramic sculpture for Baby Centaur[6][23]
  • 1942 – "Artist of the Month" for January, solo show at the Los Angeles County Museum[12]
  • 1944 – Society for Sanity in Art's group show at Los Angeles County Museum[8]
  • 1960 – Group show at W. & J. Sloane Petite Galerie in Beverly Hills[31][32]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b c "Peter Ganine – Artist, Fine Art, Auction Records, Prices, Biography for Peter Ganine". AskART. Retrieved 23 May 2014.
  2. ^ "Peter Ganine Biography, Works of Art, Auction Results". Invaluable. Retrieved 23 May 2014.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "Peter Ganine; L.A. Sculptor". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. 13 August 1974. p. A16.
  4. ^ a b c d e Sherman, Gene (22 May 1957). "Cityside with Gene Sherman". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. p. 2.
  5. ^ Perry, Barbara (15 May 1989). American Ceramics: The Collection of Everson Museum of Art. Rizzoli. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-8478-1025-3.
  6. ^ a b c "Brush Strokes". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. 13 October 1940. p. C8.
  7. ^ a b c d Millier, Arthur (11 January 1942). "Two Good Sculptors Show Their Works in Southland". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. p. C6.
  8. ^ a b c Millier, Arthur (10 December 1944). "Sanity Society's Exhibits Stress Conventional". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. p. B5.
  9. ^ a b Millier, Arthur (4 April 1948). "Southlanders Show Works on Spiritual Theme". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. p. C7.
  10. ^ a b Millier, Arthur (16 October 1938). "Brush Strokes". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. p. C7.
  11. ^ a b Millier, Arthur (16 July 1939). "San Diego Presents Fine Show of Southland Art". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. p. C7.
  12. ^ a b Millier, Arthur (4 Jan 1942). "War Fails to Halt Exhibitions of Art". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. p. C7.
  13. ^ a b "Deaths Elsewhere". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. 14 August 1974. p. C16.
  14. ^ a b US patent 153426, Peter Ganine, "Floating toy", published 19 April 1949 
  15. ^ a b US patent 153514, Peter Ganine, "Design for a toy duck", published 26 April 1949 
  16. ^ Ganine's various patents consistently show the figures of animals in the designs:
    • US patent 155702, Peter Ganine, "Design for a toy animal figure", published 25 October 1949 
    • US patent 158738, Peter Ganine, "Toy animal figure", published 30 May 1950 
    • US patent 158737, Peter Ganine, "Toy animal figure", published 30 May 1950 
    • US patent 159795, Peter Ganine, "Animal figure", published 22 August 1950 
    • US patent 159796, Peter Ganine, "Animal figure", published 22 August 1950 
    • US patent 185494, Peter Ganine, "Bracket for a bathroom fixture", published 16 June 1959 
    • US patent 3064365, Peter Ganine, "Modeling device", published 20 November 1962 
  17. ^ Hoadley, Raymond (15 September 1957). "The Week in Business". New York Herald Tribune. New York, New York. p. A5.
  18. ^ California Marriage Index, 1949–1959
  19. ^ Hopper, Hedda (5 June 1954). "Marguerite Churchill to Be Wed – Former film star Marguerite Churchill will marry Peter Ganine at the Russian Orthodox Church here". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. p. A1.
  20. ^ "Chessmen of Every Age and Nation are among World's Art Masterpieces". Life: 48–49. 29 January 1940.
  21. ^ a b "Peter Ganine – by Bonhams". Invaluable. Retrieved 23 May 2014.
  22. ^ "Pictures instead of Wall Paper". The Christian Science Monitor. Boston, Massachusetts. 29 October 1940. p. 6.
  23. ^ a b "Here, There, Elsewhere: Rouault Ceramics Allied Posters". The New York Times. New York, New York. 27 October 1940. p. 138.
  24. ^ "Ebell Salon of Art (1944)". California Art Club. Retrieved 23 May 2014.
  25. ^ "Peter Ganine". Shidoni. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 23 May 2014.
  26. ^ The Evening Independent. St. Petersburg, Florida. 5 April 1947. p. 4. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  27. ^ "Vintage Chessmen by Peter Ganine". Dansk the Night Away. 12 October 2011. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  28. ^ "Peter Ganine – by Bonhams". Invaluable. Retrieved 23 May 2014.
  29. ^ "Pierre Peter Ganine Sculpture – by Bonhams". Invaluable. Retrieved 23 May 2014.
  30. ^ "San Diego's Invitation Show". The Christian Science Monitor. Boston, Massachusetts. 26 August 1939. p. 4.
  31. ^ H.J.S. (10 July 1960). "Kirchner Relieves Season Doldrums". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. p. F7.
  32. ^ Fox, Christy (6 July 1960). "Honoring an Ex-President". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. p. A3.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_Ganine&oldid=1215603466"