
Property from the Walker Art Center, Sold to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund
Farm Hand
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Property from the Walker Art Center, Sold to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund
William Gropper
1897 - 1977
Farm Hand
signed Gropper and dated -40 (lower right)
oil on canvas
48 ⅛ by 36 in.
122 by 91.4 cm.
Executed in 1940.
T. B. Walker Foundation and Gilbert M. Walker Fund, Minneapolis
Acquired as a gift from the above in 1943 by the present owner
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, 92 Americans, 1943, p. 8, illustrated
University of Miami, Lowe Art Gallery and Phoenix Art Museum, William Gropper: Retrospective, 1968, no. 43, p. 66, illustrated (dated circa 1942)
Helen Boswell, “Fifty-Seventh Street in Review,” The Art Digest, vol. 15, no. 12, 15 March 1941, p. 23, illustrated
ARTNews, vol. XLIII, no. 18, 1-14 January 1945, p. 23
Praeger Encyclopedia of Art, vol. 3, 1971, p. 870 (dated circa 1942)
Lynne Baer, William Gropper's Construction of a Dam: Case Study of a Mural, Thesis, University of California, Davis, 1983, p. 18; p. 77, fig. 9, illustrated (dated circa 1940)
Louis Lozowick, William Gropper, Philadelphia, 1983, p. 108, illustrated (dated circa 1940)
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