Samuel Gropper, commonly known as William Victor Gropper, was born December 3, 1897, in New York City and was a political cartoonist employed in New York City. He was staff cartoonist on the New York Sunday Tribune from 1919 to 1921, and the New York Sunday World from 1925 to 1927. Gropper has been a contributor to the New York Post, The Bookman, The Dial, The Spur, Smart Set, Vanity Fair, Vogue, New Masses, Sunday Worker, Morning Freiheit and other papers and magazines. In 1957, he denied being a member of the Communist Party, but he admitted being employed by the "Morning Freinheit." Gropper had an Art Exposition at the Gallery of United Artists of Mexico on April 11, through May 2, 1957, where 82 lithographs were displayed. He received a contract to paint murals for the main floor of the Department of Interior Building.
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