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WILLIAM GROPPER (1897-1978)

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WILLIAM GROPPER (1897-1978)
<B>WILLIAM GROPPER (1897-1978)</B></I><BR>Senate, c.1934, from his Senate series<BR>India ink on paper<BR>21in. x 18.5in. (sight size)<BR>Signed lower right: Gropper <BR>Metropolitan Museum of Art record form label on verso inscribed: William Gropper/ Croton-on-Hudson/ Senate<BR>Provenance: Hotel Dennis Art Gallery, Atlantic City, New Jersey<BR><BR>Exhibited: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, <I>American Water Colors, Drawings, and Prints,</B></I> 1952<BR><BR>New York born artist William Gropper was a painter and cartoonist who focused on social concerns and was actively engaged in the organized labor movement throughout his career. He created many illustrations and cartoons for the <I>New York Tribune,</B></I> <I>Vanity Fair,</B></I> and the left wing <I>New Masses.</B></I> Some of his works focused on the hypocrisy of government figures, especially members of the United States Senate, as seen in the present drawing from his <I>Senate Series.</B></I> As a young man, Gropper was a student of Robert Henri and George Bellows at the Ferrer School from 1912 to 1915. He did fine art painting on the side until the early 1920s and had his first solo exhibition in 1936. In 1938, he completed a mural for the Department of the Interior in Washington DC. His artwork is housed in important public collections, including the Phoenix Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Newark Museum, Brooklyn Art Museum, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. <BR><BR><B>Important notice:</B> Heritage usually auctions material at the rate of 200-250 lots per hour. On some occasions eBay Live bid software or the Internet may not be able to keep up with the pace of the auction. We recommend placing a realistic absentee bid now as insurance to avoid disappointment. Occasionally the auctioneer may eliminate or reject an eBay Live bid, and the auctioneer may also reopen a lot after the close of the eBay live bidding (usually because we missed an audience bid), and may reject your bid even if it shows you as the winning bidder. By bidding via eBay Live, you agree that Heritage may award the lot to another bidder at its sole discretion under the circumstances described above or any other reasonable circumstances. Since eBay bids are not shown to us until we open the lot on the floor, we treat those bids just like floor bids. In most cases the floor responds before the eBay bid is presented to us, due to Internet lag time, so for consistency we have made it a policy that floor bids are always considered first over tie eBay live bids. Also please note that all Heritage lots purchased through eBay Live carry a 25% Buyer's Premium. Please make sure you read the Terms and Conditions before you bid. <BR><BR><B>IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT RESERVES:</B> Heritage now divulges all reserves on its web site 7 days before every auction. If you want to know whether the reserve on this lot has been met, and if not, what the reserve amount is, please visit this lot page on the HeritageCoin.com web site, or email: bid@HeritageGalleries.com </span></font>