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Title:Homeless
Artist:William Gropper (American, New York 1897–1977 Manhasset, New York)
Date:1938
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:20 x 28 in. (50.8 x 71.1 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1939
Object Number:39.49
Inscription: Signed (lower right): GROPPER
the artist, Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y. (1938–39; sold through ACA Gallery, New York to MMA)
New York. ACA Galleries. "Paintings and Drawings, William Gropper," February 19–March 11, 1939, extended to March 18, 1939.
Augusta, Ga. Augusta Art Club. "Modern American Paintings," December 22, 1940–January 15, 1941.
Oswego, N. Y. Oswego State Normal School. March 1–26, 1941, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Contemporary Painting in the United States," April 19–27, 1941, no. 62.
Mexico City. Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes. "La Pintura Contemporánea Norteamericana," June 12–July 9, 1941, unnumbered cat. (p. 55).
Santiago. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. "La Pintura Contemporánea Norteamericana," September 6–October 5, 1941, unnumbered cat.
Lima. Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes. "La Pintura Contemporánea Norteamericana," November 5–30, 1941, unnumbered cat.
Quito. Universidad Central de Ecuador. "La Pintura Contemporánea Norteamericana," December 1941, unnumbered cat.
Utica, N.Y. Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute. "Picture of the Month," March 1944, no catalogue.
Art Gallery of Toronto. "Museums' Choice: Paintings by Contemporary Americans," February 2–25, 1945, no. 45.
Brooklyn. James Madison High School. "New York School-Museum Program," May 1–June 21, 1945, no catalogue.
Brooklyn. Samuel J. Tilden High School. "Modern American Masters (New York School-Museum Program)," November 1945, no catalogue.
Brooklyn. Fort Hamilton High School. "Modern American Masters (New York School-Museum Program)," December 1945, no catalogue.
Bronx. William Howard Taft High School. "Modern American Masters (New York School-Museum Program)," January 1946, no catalogue.
New York. Benjamin Franklin High School. "Modern American Masters (New York School-Museum Program)," February 1946, no catalogue.
Bronx. DeWitt Clinton High School. "Modern American Masters (New York School-Museum Program)," March 1946, no catalogue.
Bronx. Walton High School. "Modern American Masters (New York School-Museum Program)," April 1946, no catalogue.
Queens. John Adams High School. "Modern American Masters (New York School-Museum Program)," May–June 1946, no catalogue.
New York. Straubenmuller Textile High School. "New York School-Museum Program," September 18–October 25, 1946, no catalogue.
Bronx. Theodore Roosevelt High School. "New York School-Museum Program," October 25–November 25, 1946, no catalogue.
Bronx. Evander Childs High School. "New York School-Museum Program," November 25, 1946–January 8, 1947, no catalogue.
Bronx. Christopher Columbus High School. "New York School-Museum Program," January 8–February 20, 1947, no catalogue.
New York. Julia Richman High School. "New York School-Museum Program," February 20–March 20, 1947, no catalogue.
Brooklyn. New Utrecht High School. "New York School-Museum Program," March 20–April 30, 1947, no catalogue.
Brooklyn. Bay Ridge High School. "New York School-Museum Program," April 30–June 6, 1947, no catalogue [on view until May 19, 1947].
Brooklyn. Lafayette High School. "New York School-Museum Program," September 25–October 17, 1947, no catalogue.
Brooklyn. Erasmus Hall High School. "New York School-Museum Program," October 17–November 17, 1947, no catalogue.
Brooklyn. Midwood High School. "New York School-Museum Program," November 17, 1947–January 5, 1948, no catalogue.
New York. Washington Irving High School. "New York School-Museum Program," January 5–February 5, 1948, no catalogue.
Bronx High School of Science. "New York School-Museum Program," February 5–March 8, 1948, no catalogue.
Bronx. James Monroe High School. "New York School-Museum Program," March 8–April 7, 1948, no catalogue.
Brooklyn. Franklin K. Lane High School. "New York School-Museum Program," April 7–May 6, 1948, no catalogue.
Circulating exhibition. "20 Contemporary American Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 1948–May 1949, including the following venues.
Brooklyn. Girls' High School. "New York School-Museum Program," May 6–June 10, 1948, no catalogue.
Sioux City, Iowa. Sioux City Art Center. "20 Contemporary American Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," March 13–end March 1949, no catalogue.
Norman. Oklahoma University Museum of Art. "20 Contemporary American Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 1949, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "20th Century Painters: A Special Exhibition of Oils, Water Colors and Drawings Selected from the Collections of American Art in the Metropolitan Museum," June 16–October 29, 1950, unnum. brochure (p. 6).
Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences. "Modern Realism," November 27, 1955–January 10, 1956.
Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery of the University of Miami. "William Gropper Retrospective," February 15–March 10, 1968.
Phoenix Art Museum. "William Gropper Retrospective," closed May 26, 1968.
Evansville, Ind. Evansville Museum of Arts & Science. "William Gropper Retrospective," August 4–September 1, 1968.
James J. Rorimer. "Notes: Contemporary American Paintings." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 34 (April 1939), p. 101.
"Art Notes: Events in New York and Elsewhere." New York Times (April 23, 1939), p. 131.
"Museum Acquires 7 More Paintings." New York Times (April 22, 1939), p. 21.
"Art Throughout America. New York: Winlock's Resignation and U.S. Purchases at the Metropolitan." Art News 37 (April 22, 1939), p. 17.
"Museum Buys 7 Paintings by Artists in U.S." New York Herald Tribune (April 22, 1939), p. 15.
J. L. "Bold and Dramatic Compositions in New Paintings by Gropper." Art News 37 (March 4, 1939), p. 14.
"Old and New in World's Fair Art Exhibits. Gropper in the Metropolitan." Daily Worker (April 26, 1939), p. 9, ill.
Holger Cahill. "In Our Time." Magazine of Art 39 (November 1946), p. 320, ill.
Robert Beverly Hale. 100 American Painters of the 20th Century: Works Selected from the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1950, ill. p. 82.
"Panorama of American 20th Century Art Exhibited." Santa Barbara News-Press (June 18, 1950), p. C-5.
"Brooks Hangs New Paintings." Barnard Bulletin (April 12, 1951), p. 2.
Helen T. Buegler. "Realism and Renaissance Art Are Contrasted at Museum." Staten Island Advance (December 6, 1955), p. 10.
William Gropper (American, New York 1897–1977 Manhasset, New York)
1956
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