The Opposition

A 1942 lithograph by the American painter and cartoon artist William Gropper (1897-1977) which is part of a series titled, “Sowers of the Senatorial Winds”. The series commenced in 1930 when Gropper began to create works for the United States Senate for Vanity Fair. The political work depicts the mock indignation of the opposition in Senate, although another work within the same series shows similar figures conspiring and was an often used subject matter. Short Biography: William Gropper was born 3 December 1897 in New York and was known for his illustrations, editorial cartoons, and paintings that exposed human suffering as a result of social and economic injustices. He studied at the National Academy of Design and the New York School of Fine and Applied Art. Later, Gropper joined the Communist Movement, working for Pravda in Moscow and the Daily Worker in the United States. Gropper remained a social realist painter and a radical and passed away 6 January 1977 in New York