“William Gropper: Artist of the People,” at the Phillips Collection through Jan. 5, 2025, and curated by Elsa Smithgall, shows the work of a traditional kind of lefty from the 1930s and ’40 ...

“Hunger March,” n.d., by William Gropper (Courtesy of The Queens Museum) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for ...

The works in “William Gropper: Artist of the People,” a sharply political survey of the left-wing painter and illustrator, come in three modes and two sizes. The cartoons and lithographs in ...

William Gropper Alay-Oop. (Courtesy of New York Review Comics) William Gropper is not especially well remembered today, but to the extent that he is, it’s as a political cartoonist. From 1917 ...

At the age of 64, Painter William Gropper is, as one Manhattan critic wrote last week, “one of the honorable old guard of American painting.” But the phrase should not be taken to mean that ...

The Phillips Collection recently opened a show that celebrates our formerly funny politics through the work of William Gropper (1897-1977), the political cartoonist, painter and printmaker.

This is a very different era from the one in which William Gropper rose to prominence. It is no longer fashionable to say things in art. And it is dangerous to have a social conscience.

Not long ago, your chief curator, Jennifer McComas, wrote us to ask that we lend our painting "De Profundis" by the artist William Gropper to her forthcoming exhibition "The Holocaust and American Art ...

If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. William Gropper, “Wage Standard” cartoon published in Freiheit, pen and ink with wash on paper ...

The radical cartoonist William Gropper’s “Alay-Oop,” newly reissued, can be appreciated as a very early example of the graphic novel. By J. Hoberman Credit... The radical cartoonist and ...

William Gropper was one of those 1930s artists who became classified as an “American Scene” painter, which put him in the company of such figures as Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood and John ...