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.
Large Oil Painting Klezmer Wedding Rabbis Judaica WPA Jewish Art William Gropper
By William Gropper
Located in Surfside, FL
William Gropper (1897- 1977) Oil on canvas Hand signed lower right Dimensions: 24 h x 36 w in (61 x 91 cm) Framed 29.25 X 41.25 Dancing Chassidim with Klezmer musician, Menorah and T...
Canvas, Oil
$18,000
Opera Box American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Classical Music
By William Gropper
Located in New York, NY
Opera Box American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Classical Music William Gropper (1898 - 1977) Opera Box 20 x 16 inches Oil on board, 1957 Signed lower left Framed 27...
Oil, Board
$4,500
H 25 in W 37 in
Modernist English 1970's, Interior with an old record player Port decanter glass
By Colin Ruffell
Located in Woodbury, CT
Colin Ruffell is an English painter of interiors, cityscapes, and many other unique subjects. This bold and evocative 1970s painting by English artist Colin Ruffell captures a nosta...
Oil, Canvas
$4,800
H 22 in W 26 in D 1 in
Interior J&L Works, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania American Industrial Scene Painting
Located in Marco Island, FL
An interior scene of industrial America where workers kept the production of steel going in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This detailed and atmospheric painting shows the hard work and ...
Oil, Board
$1,800
H 15.5 in W 31.5 in D 1.25 in
A Dynamic 1930s Boxing Match Painting by Famed Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin
By Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A dynamic, colorful 1930s painting of a boxing match in Mexico by famed Chicago Modern artist Francis Chapin. Painted during one of the artist's early trips to Mexico, an exceptional painting showing Chapin's steadfast interest in sporting scenes, particularly boxing matches. Image size: 12 x 28 inches. Framed size: 15 1/2 x 31 1/2 inches. Estate stamped on reverse. Provenance: Estate of the artist. Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of Chicago Painters” by his colleagues, was one of the city’s most popular and celebrated painters in his day. Born at the dawn of the 20th Century in Bristolville, Ohio, Chapin graduated from Washington and Jefferson College near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania before enrolling at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1922. He would set down deep roots at the Art Institute of Chicago, exhibiting there over 31 times between 1926 and 1951. In 1927 Chapin won the prestigious Bryan Lathrop Fellowship from the Art Institute – a prize that funded the artist’s yearlong study trip to Europe. Upon his return to the United States, Chapin decided to remain in Chicago, noting the freedom Chicago artists have in developing independently of the pressure to conform to pre-existing molds (as was experienced by artists in New York, for example). Chapin became a popular instructor at the Art Institute, teaching there from 1929 to 1947 and at the Art Institute’s summer art school in Saugatuck, Michigan (now called Oxbow) between 1934 – 1938 (he was the director of the school from 1941-1945). Chapin’s contemporaries among Chicago’s artists included such luminaries as Ivan Le Lorraine Albright...
Canvas, Oil
$931
H 23.04 in W 26.38 in
Mid Century Modern Swedish Interior Figurative Oil Painting - Shared Moments
Located in Bristol, GB
SHARED MOMENTS Size: 58.5 x 67 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A beautifully atmospheric mid-century modernist oil painting depicting two figures in a quiet interior scene, execu...
Canvas, Oil
Man at Machine
By Theodore Roszak
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Man at Machine, 1939, oil on canvas, unsigned, 9 ½ x 16 inches, label verso bears artist’s name and address, title, date, size and medium of the painting, exhibited Roszak Early Pain...
Canvas, Oil
$22,000
H 31 in W 37 in D 2 in
Get Change Here - American Modernism Scene WPA Mid-Century Realism NYC Cityscape
By Max Arthur Cohn
Located in New York, NY
Get Change Here - American Modernism Scene WPA Mid-Century Realism NYC Cityscape Max Arthur Cohn (1903-1988) "Get Change Here" 20 x 25 inches Oil on canvas, c. 1930s Signed lower le...
Canvas, Oil
$2,120Sale Price|20% Off
H 40 in W 28 in D 3 in
Mid Century Modern Jazz Ensemble -- The Band Box Quartet, Signed
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Modern Jazz Quartet Figurative -- "The Band Box" Signed A vivid, mid-century modernist interpretation of a jazz ensemble by Louis M. Centofanti (American, 1921-2018). "B...
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
$18,000
H 31 in W 37.75 in
"Restaurant" Adelaide Lawson Gaylor, American Modernist Interior Party Scene
By Adelaide Lawson Gaylor
Located in New York, NY
Adelaide Lawson Gaylor Restaurant Signed lower right Oil on canvas 24 1/4 x 30 inches Modernist artist Adelaide Jaffrey Lawson Gaylor was born in New York City and studied at the A...
Canvas, Oil
Hotel Chelsea
By Paul G. Oxborough
Located in Greenwich, CT
Signed lower right Unframed dimensions: 30 x 52 inches Framed dimensions: 39 x 61 inches Paul G. Oxborough studied at Minneapolis College of Art and Design and Atelier Lesueur, a 4...
Linen, Oil
$17,500
H 22.75 in W 45.75 in D 2 in
(Untitled) A Scandalous Tea with a Stranger in Leiderstein
Located in San Francisco, CA
In the depths of the Great Depression, American women sought escape from their worries. For 25¢,“Hearst’s International Cosmopolitan” magazine delivered. The magazine published ficti...
Canvas, Oil
$6,500
H 26 in W 38 in D 0.75 in
'Figure Seated in Interior', Woman Artist, Berkeley, San Francisco Museum of Art
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'Figure Seated in Interior' by Millicent Tomkins, 1959. Woman Artist, Berkeley, San Francisco Museum of Art ---- Signed lower left, 'Millicent Tomkins' for Millicent Hanson Tomkins ...
Canvas, Oil
$3,600
H 34 in W 20.13 in
Young Seated Woman in Pink Dress & Bouquet of Flowers yellow red blue green rose
By Luigi Corbellini
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Lovely painting - Unframed
Canvas, Oil
Sold
H 25 in W 29 in D 2 in
Antique American Signed Modernist Ballerina Dancer Original Pastel Painting
By William Gropper
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist Ballerina portrait painting by William Gropper (1897 - 1977). Watercolor and pastel on paper. Signed. Framed. Image size, 12H x 16.5L
Canvas, Pastel