William Gropper (1897-1977)
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"Witness" 1968, Etching in two colors. Edition: 100. Signed in pencil, Gropper, lower right; signed in the plate (in reverse), Gropper, lower left; numbered, 18/100, lower left; titled, Witness, in the catalogue raisonné (Sorini 1998), and on the accompanying AAA sheet.
Image: 3 13/16 x 5 13/16 inches (97 x 148 mm). Sheet: 9 3/4 x 13 15/16 inches (247 x 353 mm).
Reference: Sorini 1998:xiii, 109, #109.
Image: 3 13/16 x 5 13/16 inches (97 x 148 mm). Sheet: 9 3/4 x 13 15/16 inches (247 x 353 mm).
Reference: Sorini 1998:xiii, 109, #109.
Inventory ID: 1225
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Very good condition. Full original margins. An Associated American Artists print. A fine impression on white Pescia wove paper. Printed in two colors, using an underlying blank tan plate and the etching plate inked with burnt umber. Four pieces of archival matting tape on the reverse along the upper sheet edge, well away from image. As Sorini points out, of the fourteen prints done for Associated American Artists in 1968, ten of them reflected political subjects, Witness portrayed the artist as "a young and frightened Gropper ... the model for Witness" (Sorini 1998:xiii). Though many years had passed, Gropper, in 1968, was still reflecting upon the McCarthy hearings. Gropper did two sets of etchings for the Associated American Artists, the first in 1965, and the second in 1968. Both Witness (seen here) and Top Man - seen here were done in the second printing which consisted of some fourteen different prints were all done in editions of one hundred.
Very good condition. Full original margins. An Associated American Artists print. A fine impression on white Pescia wove paper. Printed in two colors, using an underlying blank tan plate and the etching plate inked with burnt umber. Four pieces of archival matting tape on the reverse along the upper sheet edge, well away from image. As Sorini points out, of the fourteen prints done for Associated American Artists in 1968, ten of them reflected political subjects, Witness portrayed the artist as "a young and frightened Gropper ... the model for Witness" (Sorini 1998:xiii). Though many years had passed, Gropper, in 1968, was still reflecting upon the McCarthy hearings. Gropper did two sets of etchings for the Associated American Artists, the first in 1965, and the second in 1968. Both Witness (seen here) and Top Man - seen here were done in the second printing which consisted of some fourteen different prints were all done in editions of one hundred.
