Correspondence
odd: label: Appendix: Selected Correspondents from Series 5
content: Although this index is not comprehensive, an effort has been made to highlight the major artists, museums and galleries with which William and Sophie Gropper corresponded. 

 Angelo, Emidio (artist): 1971; 1972

 Ballot, Adele (  -- Vanity Fair --  magazine): 1935

 Barr, Alfred H. Jr. (The Museum of Modern Art): 1936

 Bliven, Bruce (  -- The New Republic -- ): 1936

 Broadley, Hugh (Phoenix Art Museum): 1968

 Bromfield, Innes (  -- Vanity Fair --  magazine): 1935

 Butler, Joseph G. (Butler Institute of American Art): 1969

 Cody, Bruce (Wisconsin State University): 1970

 Conacher, Don (Galerie de Tours; Conacher Galleries): 1964; 1966; 1968 

 Constable, W. G. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston): 1941

 Crowninshield, Frank (  -- Vanity Fair --  magazine): 1935; 1936

 Dewitt, John (Department of the Interior): 1971

 Doty, Robert M. (Whitney Museum of American Art): 1969

 Dows, Olin (United States Treasury Department): 1936

 Dreiser, Theodore (artist): 1934 

 Ealand, Maria (Federal Works Agency- Public Buildings Administration): 1939; 1940

 Eastman, Crystal (The Liberator): 1919

 Foley, Martha (  -- Story  -- magazine): 1936

 Force, Juliana (The Whitney Museum of American Art): 1939

 Garson, Inez (Cornell University): 1964

 Gibbs, Wolcott (  -- The New Yorker -- ): 1936 

 Gillette, Guy M. (United States Senator, Iowa): 1949

 Gorney, Jay (ACA Galleries): 1975

 Gould, Beatrice Blackman (  -- Ladies' Home Journal -- ): 1937

 Gropper, Lance (grandson): 1969

 Gross, Hilda (ACA Galleries): 1979

 Harkavy, Susan (ACA Galleries): 1981

 Hayes, Bartlett H. Jr. (Addison Gallery): 1964

 Heintzelman, Arthur W. (Boston Public Library): 1953

 Henri, Robert (artist): 1921

 Hinchman, R. L. (Lord and Thomas Advertising): 1935

 Hirsch, Joseph (National Academy of Design): 1972; 1973

 Horowitz, Ben (Heritage Gallery): 1968-1976; 1982; undated 

 Hyman, Linda (ACA Galleries): 1981

 Kainen, Jacob (National Collection of Fine Arts): 1969

 Korn, Gail (Whitney Museum of American Art): 1967

 Lamson, James Q. (Ohio University): 1973

 Lerner, Abram (Hirshhorn Museum, New York): 1972

 Lewis, John L. (United Mine Workers of America): 1936 

 Lozowick, Louis (artist): 1970-1973; undated

 Malawer, Lisa (ACA Galleries): 1982

 Mannes, Marya (  -- Vogue --  magazine): 1936

 Meador, Philip L. (Galerie de Tours): 1964

 McCabe, Cynthia (Hirshhorn Museum, New York): 1972

 McGuire, Harry (  -- Ringmaster --  magazine): 1936

 McLouth, Mildred (Berkeley Art Museum): 1931 

 Minnigerode, C. Powell (Corcoran Gallery of Art): 1943

 Newman, Dorothy (M. H. DeYoung Memorial Museum)

 O'Conner, Francis V. (NCFA, Smithsonian Institution): 1970

 Owen, William B. (United States Treasury Department): 1937 

 Palmer, William C. (Mural Painters Society): 1936

 Parsons, Frank Alvah (New York School of Fine and Applied Art): 1916

 Rhodes, Reilly P. (Canton Art Institute): 1971; 1972

 Rogerson, Ann S. (Montclair Art Museum): 1969 

 Rowan, Edward B. (United States Treasury Department): 1935; 1937; 1939; 1941

 Saint-Gaudens, Homer (Carnegie Institute): 1947 

 Schmeckebler, Laurence (Syracuse University): 1964

 Schoener, Allon (Jewish Museum, New York): 1966

 Sharkey, Alice (United States Treasury Department): 1936

 Singer, Clyde (Butler Institute of American Art): 1973

 Soby, James Thrall (The Museum of Modern Art): 1964

 SoRelle, Jane (ACA Gallery, Rome): 1964

 Soyer, Raphael (artist): 1947; 1970

 Taylor, Francis Henry (The Museum of Modern Art): 1942

 Tolley, William P. (Syracuse University): 1968

 United States Treasury Department: 1935

Vanity Fair --  magazine: 1935

 Valeska, S. (Valeska Art Studios): 1966

 Watson, Forbes (United States Treasury Department): 1936; 1942

 Winser, Beatrice (Newark Museum): 1935

 Yasko, Karel (Public Buildings Service): 1969; 1971; 1977; undated

 Young, Art (artist): 1934
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Gropper, William, 1897-1977
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content: William Gropper papers
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content: 0.4 Linear Feet (Box 1)
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content: circa 1916-1983
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
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content: AAA.gropwill, Series 5
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content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Correspondence is arranged chronogically.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series includes letters written to William Gropper from 1916 until 1977, including some photocopies. Very few of William Gropper's responses are in this collection, which are mostly undated. There is also correspondence written by and to Sophie Gropper from 1980 to 1983. Notable correspondents include Louis Lozowick, Frank Crowninshield, Raphael Soyer, Robert Henri, and Frank Alvah Parsons. There are many letters from Ben Horowitz with the Heritage Gallery, which sold Gropper's art. Additionally, there are letters concerning William Gropper's participation in the Works Progress Administration. Correspondence from 1935 documents Gropper's contributions to Vanity Fair magazine before it ceased publication in 1936. Correspondence after Gropper's death is between his widow, Sophie Gropper and various museums, galleries, and publishers. 

See Appendix for a list of selected correspondents from Series 5