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...serious" work for one's serious study. Originals can be bought and rented for very reasonable prices and are amazingly exciting to have. Etchings and engravings by Picasso, Modigliani, Manet, Chagall, etc., original works, can be bought for less than twenty dollars at Retina Gallery, Fabrications, and at Gropper Gallery along Mass. Ave., just to name a few. These are small works and may come at the end of fifty or even a hundred impressions. But they are the right size for small rooms and very satisfying to own. When you own an original piece of art, you have...
Galleries develop as artists do. Gropper Galleries (underneath the Brattle Theatre at 40 Brattle Street) has probably become the best in Cambridge. Mr. Gropper used to show some less-than-extraordinary local painters; he now concentrates more on prints and drawings, for which he has a good eye. His December exhibition makes the tenth anniversary of the gallery, quite an achievement in Cambridge, and it is one of the best. The show is made up largely of drawings from the sixteenth century on and includes fine examples attributed to Stradanus, Bercham, and Millais. His gallery also features prints and drawings...
...extraordinarily gentle and soft-spoken person, Gropper seemed the angriest of men on canvas. His paunchy bosses, downtrodden workers and wounded soldiers not only parroted the party line and mirrored the headlines but were a staple of the artistic diet. After World War II, taste in art changed, and to look at a Gropper painting became rather like rereading Grapes of Wrath. American art became less interested in humanity, downtrodden or otherwise, than in art for its own sake...
...Need for a Friend." Such impersonality was unbearable to Gropper: "I need to find the human element the way I need to find a friend." Strangely, after the long reign of the abstractionists, Cropper's work looks not like a set of period pieces but like something almost new. In him, the cartoonist, the caricaturist and the artist are jumbled up together, and sometimes the cartoonist overrides the artist...
...world with eyes filled with wonder; an old woman stands in front of a clock that ticks away her life. The stock oppressors-the politicians and the plutocrats-are used only to show artist's concern for the oppressed. His work is in a durable tradition: a Gropper senator does not date any more than a Daumier judge or a Prussian officer by George Grosz. In Gropper, the "old guard" seems amazingly young...