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...Jerome Gropper, Zeitels' nursing assistant in the ear, nose and throat department, explains that the doctor's reputation has spread by word of mouth through the music community...
...They know him," says Gropper...
With the same argument you can claim that an artist like William Gropper, who drew those stirring cartoons of fat capitalists in top hats for the New Masses 60 years ago, may have something over an artist like Edward Hopper, who didn't care a plugged nickel for community and was always painting figures in lonely rooms in such a way that you can't be sure whether he was criticizing alienation or affirming the virtues of solitude...
Died. William Cropper, 79, a leading artist of the social realist school; of heart disease; in Manhasset, N.Y. Gropper's cartoons and paintings savaged the privileged and the powerful; his capitalists looked bloated, his workers downtrodden. Though he was ostracized during the McCarthy era, his works hang in major museums and government buildings...
...smaller stores carry special posters unique to them. The Gropper Gallery on Mass. Ave. near Radcliffe carries authentic World War II posters. Across the street a weird little Indian store, Kamala Devi, carries authentic demons and Buddhas and down in Brattle Square Zecropia sells wonderful Zodiac posters. Schoenhoff's, on Mass. Ave. between Plympton and Linden Streets, carries one of the best collections of reproductions of prints and paintings. Reproducing a lithograph or print is a relatively minor prostitution since the works were originally meant to be printed many times with paper and ink. Lacking the inscriptions and camp tone...