American Masters – Art of the 20th – 21st Centuries - Exhibition Catalogue

William Gropper (1897 - 1977) | Night Club, 1973 | oil on canvas | 20 x 24 inches signed Gropper, upper right

In 1937, Gropper traveled west on a Guggenheim Fellowship and visited the Dust Bowl and the Hoover and Grand Coulee Dams, sketching studies for a series of paintings and a mural he painted for the Department of the Interior in Washington, DC. That same year he had paintings purchased by both the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art.