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WILLIAM GROPPER (1897-1977)
Despair. Oil on canvas. 402x505 mm; 15 3/4x19 7/8 inches. Signed in oil, lower left recto.
Provenance: Private collection, Philadelphia; thence by descent to current owner, private collection, Philadelphia.
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.
