Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho
1946
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View on museum website →Medium
lithograph in black on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 36.9 x 25.6 cm (14 1/2 x 10 1/16 in.) sheet: 43.6 x 31.9 cm (17 3/16 x 12 9/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of John Nichols Estabrook and Dorothy Coogan Estabrook
Accession Number
1987.41.29
About the Artist
William Gropper
William Gropper (1897–1977) was an American artist and cartoonist whose sharp satirical vision made him one of the most incisive social critics working in visual art during the first half of the twentieth century. Born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan to immigrant Jewish parents, Gropper grew up in poverty and received his art training at the Ferrer School under Robert Henri and George Bellows ...