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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
WILLIAM GROPPER (1897 - 1977)
Contemplation. Oil on board. 406x203 mm; 16x8 inches. Signed lower right, verso and estate stamped, verso.
Provenance Estate of the artist. Nathan Altman, NY. Thence by descent to the current owner.
Working in oil on canvas, Gropper completed three mural projects: Two canvases for the Freeport, New York Post Office, 1938; Three canvases for the Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior building, Washington, DC, 1936-7 and installed in 1940; One canvas, painted for the Northwestern Branch post Office, Detroit, later moved and installed at Wayne State University Student Center, Detroit, Michigan.
