William Gropper

Cartoonist and social realist painter who studied with Robert Henri and George Bellows. Often compared with Honoré Daumier, Gropper was a satirical cartoonist for theNew York Tribune.He contributed toVanity Fair,as well as to more radical publications such as theMassesand theLiberator,and to two Communist publications—Freiheitand theDaily Worker.Joan StahlAmerican Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection(Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995)