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William GropperWilliam Gropper, (Choral Group)1938
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An early serigraph (screen print) by William Gropper. There's a harpist to provide the music and a choir master conducting. The seated members of the group are individually drawn as only someone as skilled as Gropper could make them.
'William Gropper' is written in pencil in the lower margin -- not a signature. On the back there's a note 'Printer's proof, Graphic Div. FPA, 1938.' However to the best of my knowledge this wasn't issued by the Project.
- Creator:William Gropper (1897 - 1977, American)
- Creation Year:1938
- Dimensions:Height: 10.5 in (26.67 cm)Width: 15.5 in (39.37 cm)
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- Condition:Staining -- especially in the margin outside of the image. There's also a tear, about 1 1/4 inches into the image at the lower left (showing in one of the photographs). On the reverse there's old tape holding this tear.
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU141028359202
William Gropper
William Gropper was a painter and cartoonist who, with caricature style, focused on social concerns. Gropper was born on December 3, 1897, in New York. William Gropper was a student of Robert Henri and George Bellows at the Ferrer School from 1912–15. During the 1930s, working as a part of the Federal Arts Project, he produced some of the most gripping social protest works of the Great Depression. His subjects included industrial strikes, especially in coal mining and steel-production centers. Gropper did much illustration-cartoon work for the New York Tribune newspaper, Vanity Fair magazine and the politically left-wing publication, New Masses. Some of his other pieces focused on the hypocrisy of government figures, especially members of the United States Senate. Gropper died on January 6, 1977, in Manhasset.
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