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name: Gropper
vorname: William (Victor) (Bill)
wikidata-repräsentation: Q972080
biografische angaben: 1897 – 1977, U.S. cartoonist, painter, lithographer, and muralist. A committed radical, Gropper is best known for the political work which he contributed to such left wing publications as The Revolutionary Age, The Liberator, The New Masses, The Worker, and The Morning Freiheit.
In the 1930s, Gropper completed murals for the Schenley Corporation and the Hotel Taft in New York City. Like many artists of the era who found it difficult to find work, he obtained commissions funded by the New Deal Works Progress Administration (WPA) for a variety of projects including murals for post offices in Freeport, Long Island, and Detroit. In 1937, he won a national design competition to create a mural for the new U.S. Department of the Interior building as a part of the U.S. Treasury Art Project. Construction of a Dam was completed in 1939 as a tribute to technology and teamwork. It consisted of three panels inspired by the building of the Grand Coulee (Columbia River) and Davis (Colorado River) dams.