Word: gropper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world institution, has long been one of the more genteel commercial anticipations of December 25. The idea is to make available to an audience which does not usually purchase original works of art, a diversified group of drawings, prints and smaller paintings. The current group show at the Gropper Galleries, being very diversified and often excellent, does just that...
Concurrently, Jane Stouffer, daughter of Professor Samuel Stouffer, has her first exhibition in this country after having shown last year in Florence. Her casein paintings and color woodcuts of Venetian, Florentine and other motifs make their debut in high company at the Gropper, exhibiting considerable control and a highly personal use of the media...
Here are two distinct philosophies and two diverse temperaments. Perhaps their only bond is that of intense conviction. But this alone gives the Gropper Gallery, if not a great exhibition, a stimulating...
...York born Ralph Rosenborg, whose oils and watercolors accompany Kollwitz's graphic work at the Gropper, pursues art with precisely this aesthetic criterion in mind. A newcomer to the Cambridge scene, Rosenborg's work has never come closer than Provincetown despite some three hundred exhibitions both in this country and abroad. Displayed here, to the delightful if somewhat dubious accompaniment of a console offering Rossini's Barber of Seville at one moment and Brahms' Hungarian Rhapsodies the next, these unpretentious canvases gain much from understatement...
...Brattle building itself has a long history in the Commonwealth. It was originally a Lutheran church about a hundred years ago, and was rebuilt in 1890 by the Cambridge Social Union to provide "innocent amusements and means of social and intellectual improvements." The downstairs section--now the Gropper Art Galleries--had at one time been used as a police gymnasium. Several theatre groups have had their ups and downs in the building, of which probably the best-remembered was the late and occasionally lamented (except by the handful of Cambridge citizens who were badly "bitten" in frequent drives for money...