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(Mg) Gropper, William : [WATERCOLOR] PIOUS MAN [SIGNED BY THE ARTIST]

1st Edition. Matted and Nicely Framed. 24 1/8 by 18 5/8 inches. Watecolor on Paper. “William Victor ‘Bill’ Gropper (December 3, 1897 – January 3, 1977) , was a U. S. Cartoonist, painter, lithographer, and muralist. A committed radical, Gropper is best known for the political work which he contributed to such left wing publications as The Revolutionary Age, The Liberator, The New Masses, The Worker, and The Morning Freiheit… Following World War II, Gropper traveled to Poland to attend the World Congress of Intellectuals for Peace of 1948 in Wroclaw… Due to his involvement with radical politics in the 1920s and 1930s, Gropper was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953… Gropper's alienation was accentuated when on March 24, 1911 he lost a favorite aunt in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire… Afterwards, he decided to pay tribute to the Jews who died in the Holocaust by painting one picture on the theme of Jewish life each year. ” (Wikipedia, 2017) Gropper is one of the most prominent leftist Jewish painters of the 20th century. The Met Museum collection includes 94 Gropper works listed online, and the MoMA museum collection includes over 50 of Gropper’s works. Signed at Bottom. Stamped William Gropper / Croton-On-Hudson NY and titled (on the verso) . Provenance: Sotheby’s, “Important Judaica 04 December 2014, ” Item 134A. Very Good Condition. (PAINT-1-10)

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