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...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 age has neutralized the acid of his style. As his new exhibition at the ACA Gallery proves, Gropper still paints villainous politicians and overstuffed capitalists-all the targets that were so in vogue in the 1930s. Yet essentially his paintings are scenes of human foolishness and tragedy, and these constants carry no date...
...would be strange if Gropper were not concerned with the flaws of society, for his early life followed closely the standard biography of the typical young radical. He was born on Manhattan's Lower East Side, a land of pushcarts and bewildered immigrants finding their way in a new world. His father had a gift for languages, but none at all for keeping a job. His mother took in piecework sewing, and Gropper himself, once he had quit school, worked as an errand boy for a clothing store at $5 a week. In spite of the ten-hour working...
...Comrade Bill." He joined a small class run by Robert Henri and George Bellows, both of whom rambled on about love, life and art and seemed to make it a point to disagree about everything. Then one day at the clothing store, young Gropper did a series of political caricatures that someone took to Garret Garrett, assistant editor of the old New York Tribune. Gropper soon found himself a full-fledged cartoonist making $40 a week. When he became enraptured by the Redlining I.W.W., the Tribune dropped him, but by then he was established. He worked for every sort...
...GROPPER ART GALLERIES (in the lower lobby of the Brattle Theatre): "Art Nouveau," a collection of original lithograph posters by leading artists of this style. Starts Monday...
...GROPPER ART GALLERIES (in the lower lobby of the Brattle Theatre): A one-man exhibition of drawings, the work of Nathan Goldstein...