By George Gach
Located in New York, NY
George Gách (American, 1909-1996)
The Old Tree in Glenwood Landing, 1957
Oil on canvas
23 x 27 in.
Framed: 26 x 29 1/2 in.
Singed lower right: Gách 1957
Provenance:
Garden City Galleries, Garden City, NY
Includes brochure.
Born in Hungary, George Gách, the son of sculptor Stephen Gách (1880-1962), was noted for sculpture, impressionist painting and teaching. His subjects included animals, people, florals, nudes, cowboys, sports and scenes of Long Island, Bermuda, Mexico, Florida and upstate New York. Among his sculpture subjects are portrait busts of prime ministers, governors, corporate presidents and soccer stars.
He served as a commercial pilot from 1939 to 1952. and in 1944, was shot down and given up as dead. He was also in prisoner of war camps twice during World War II and then in 1947, was almost imprisoned by the communists in Hungary.
Gách graduated form the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest in 1939, and then immigrated to the United States. He located his studio in Roslyn Heights Long Island, and at one point set a goal...
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