William Gropper: Truth, Beauty, Justice, Humor

Political cartoonist and painter William Gropper (1897–1977) spoke truth to power. While his satiric and piercing wit targeted powerful men in politics and finance, he was an advocate for the people, saving his admiration and respect for the American worker. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, his biting political cartoons appeared in popular publications like Vanity Fair and the New York Tribune as well as radical journals like New Masses.

With paintings, drawings, and prints from the permanent collection, William Gropper: Truth, Beauty, Justice, Humor highlights what the artist’s critical eye and mind captured during four decades of his career.

Image: William Gropper, The Opposition, 1942, oil on canvas. Marion Stratton Gould Fund, 1951.5. Courtesy: ACA Galleries, NY and the William Gropper Estate