William Gropper

Sweatshop

1934

Garment workers sew and inspect fabric in a crowded factory room under hanging lamps.

Garment workers sew and inspect fabric in a crowded factory room under hanging lamps.

Not on view

Date
1934

Classification
Prints

Medium
Lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet: 11 7/16 × 15 7/8 in. (29.1 × 40.3 cm) Image: 9 1/2 × 12 in. (24.1 × 30.5 cm)

Accession number
34.37.3

Edition
12/300 | Incomplete edition 300

Credit line
Purchase

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/4275

Part of a series:
The American Scene - Series 2
6 works

Dockworkers load and unload cargo from barges along a busy river with city skyline beyond.

A hunting party with dogs and rifles moves cautiously through a dark wooded cave entrance.

Group of politicians and military officers on a decorated balcony saluting under an American flag.

Garment workers sew and inspect fabric in a crowded factory room under hanging lamps.

Several people sleep along a deserted industrial street beside a brick wall under a cloudy sky.

Workers react to an injured man as a shooter aims and a protester holds up a blank sign.

Exhibitions

Modernisms

Aug 29, 2007–Jan 13, 2008

See also

Various artists, George Biddle, Jacob Burck, Adolf Dehn, George Grosz, Reginald Marsh, José Clemente Orozco
The American Scene No.1 "A comment upon American life by America's leading artists"
1933–1934

William Gropper
77 works in the collection, 25 exhibitions

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