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. [Return to the Gropper Portfolio]         WILLIAM GROPPER (1897-1977) William Gropper was born in New York City. Throughout his career he illuminated with his art the pressing issues of the times: unemployment, hunger, bigotry, racism, war and fascism. He championed the causes of the common people and ridiculed the rich and pompous much in the tradition of Daumier, Hogarth and Grosz. Gropper's roots were deep in our American folklore. He has painted Johnny Appleseed, Joe Magarac, Alay-Oop, a bickering lawyer, and a filibustering paunchy senator. His work appeared in the Daily Worker, the New Masses and many other publications. Although he strongly believed that artists, like others, must take sides in the daily struggle between freedom vs slavery, he never compromised his artistic talent. Gropper has had one man shows all over the world: New York City, Chicago, Cold Spring Harbor, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, London, Mexico City, Milan, Paris, Prague, Rome, Warsaw; and Moscow. The list goes on and on. William Gropper's work is in the collections of 35 major museums throughout the world including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Modern Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Chicago Art Institute, Fogg Art Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Tel Aviv Museum, National Gallery of Prague, the Kharkov Museum, etc. His work is included in many of the world's great collections such as the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Abbot Art, IBM., Paul Sachs, Joseph Hirshhorn, among many others. [Gropper Portfolio | Top]