Background
William "Bill" Gropper was born on December 3, 1897, in New York City, United States to Harry and Jenny Gropper.
(An autobiographical novel in Jim Tully's under-appreciate...)
An autobiographical novel in Jim Tully's under-appreciated "Underworld" series, which includes Beggars of Life, Circus Parade, and Blood on the Moon. It sold well, like most of novels, and was reprinted by Grosset & Dunlap soon after publication.
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William "Bill" Gropper was born on December 3, 1897, in New York City, United States to Harry and Jenny Gropper.
His chief formal education was received at the Ferrer School (1912), the National Academy of Design (1913 - 1914), and the School of Fine and Applied Arts (1915 - 1918).
In 1919 he took his first position as a newspaper artist on the New York Herald Tribune. He also worked as cartoonist for the New York Post and the Morning Freiheit. Both as painter and draughtsman Gropper's reputation rests on propagandistic political satire and caricature. His attitude is best revealed by his own statement: "The artist should be at all times progressive in his ideas and fight against reactionary groups. " The form taken by Gropper's own ideas is demonstrated in such paintings as The Senate (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City) and The Opposition (Encyclopedia Britannica Collection), where specific political evils are lampooned, and in Minorities (Museum of Modern Art, New York City), where a more universal theme is presented.
Similar social and political messages are delivered in a long series of books of cartoons, of which The Golden Land (1927), Drawings of the U. S. S. R (1928) , and Never to Forget (about the Warsaw Ghetto, 1947) are examples.
His later published books include The Little Tailor (1954) and portfolios, Capricios (1957) and Twelve Etchings (1965). He died in Manhasset, N. Y. , on Jan. 6, 1977. In incisiveness of line, in broad but plastic modeling, Gropper's work seems to reveal the influence of HonoréHonore Daumier; it often rises above the level of the purely topical by virtue of the artist's creative use of pattern, dynamic spatial arrangements, and vivid color in rich tones laid on with thick application of pigments.
(An autobiographical novel in Jim Tully's under-appreciate...)
In August 1921, Bill Gropper married Gladys Oaks, herself a contributor to The Liberator. In the fall of 1924, Bill Gropper married his second wife, bacteriologist Sophie Frankle. Together, the two of them built a nine-room stone house in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, where they raised their family.