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WILLIAM GROPPER (1897-1977) Torch Singer. Oil on wood panel. Signed, Gropper, lower left. 307x230 mm; 12 1/8x9 1/8 inches. 1936. Provenance: A.C.A. Galleries, New York, with the label on the frame back; Sotheby's, New York, March 25, 1997, lot 279; private collection; Heritage Auctions, Dallas, November 12, 2020, lot 27195. Exhibited: ACA Galleries, NY, Gropper 1940, Feb. 11 - Mar. 2, 1940 Literature: 1940, Gropper 1940, ACA Gallery, ilus. plate 17. Working in oil on canvas, Gropper completed three mural projects: Two canvases for the Freeport, New York Post Office, 1938; Three canvases for the Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior building, Washington, DC, 1936-7 and installed in 1940; One canvas, painted for the Northwestern Brach post Office, Detroit, later moved and installed at Wayne State University Student Center, Detroit, Michigan.