William GROPPER
1897–1977, USA

William Gropper was an extremely popular WPA artist and social realist. Born in Croton-on-Hudson , New York in 1897, Gropper studied painting and print making at the National Academy of Design from 1931-14, at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art with Giles and Hambidge, and with Robert Henri and George Bellows. Gropper was a member of the Audobon Artists; the American Newspaper Guild, and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He exhibited widely, including at: the Society of Independent Artists (1924); the Corcoran Gallery Biennials in Washington, D.C. (1941-53); the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art Annuals in Philadelphia (1939-48, 1952, 1966); the Virginia Museum of Fine Art in Richmond; the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois; the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh; the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the National Academy of Design in New York; the 1939 New York World's Fair; the Library of Congress; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the John Herron Art Institute; the Los Angeles Museum of Art in California (1945); ACA Galleries in New York; Los Angeles Heritage Gallery; Picadilly Gallery in London, England; the Mann Museum in Prague, Czech Republic. Gropper was the recipient of numerous prestigious awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1937; the Ford Foundation artist-in-residence award in 1966; and the Tamarind Lithographic fellowship in 1967. Gropper's work is in the collections of museum collections and public spaces (as a result of his WPA involvement) including: the New Interior Building in Washington, D.C.; the U.S. Post Office in Freeport, New York; the Northwestern Postal Station in Detroit, Michigan; murals at Wayne State University in Detroit and Schenley Corporation; the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the National Museum of American Art; the Phillips Memorial Gallery in Washington, D.C.; the Museum of Western Art in Moscow, Russia; the National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic; the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut; the Newark Museum in New Jersey; the City Art Museum of St. Louis in Missouri; the Walker Art Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; the University of Arizona; the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art; the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of New Mexico; the Arizona State University Museum of Art in Tempe; the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio; the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California; the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center in Colorado; the Edwin Ulrich Museum of Art in Wichita, Kansas; the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York; the Frederick Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, Minnesota; the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens, Georgia; the Jack S Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas; the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida; the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester in New York; the Michael Carlos Museum in Atlanta, Georgia; the Museum of Art at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah; the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, New York; the New York University Collection in Manhattan; the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona; the Print Club of Albany in New York; the Robert Hull Fleming Museum in Burlington, Vermont; the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts; the San Diego Museum of Art in California; the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art in Loretto, Pennsylvania; the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; the Fred Jones Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma in Norman; the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida; the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri; the University of Michigan Art Museum in Ann Arbor; the University of Wyoming Art Museum in Laramie; the University of Southern California Fisher Gallery in Los Angeles; the Wichita Art Museum in Wichita, Kansas; and the Wright Museum of Art in Beloit, Wisconsin.

Source: http://www.aspireauctions.com