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(GROPPER, WILLIAM). Freundlich, August L. & William Gropper. Los Angeles & Miami, FL: The Ward Ritchie Press & Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery of the University of Miami, 1968. First Edition 1/150 Deluxe. 4to. Pictorial Boards in Slipcase. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 128pp, 104 b&w and 8 color illustrations. Designed by Joseph Simon. With a chronology, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the significant monograph on the celebrated American Social Realist artist William Gropper published in conjunction with a 1968 touring retrospective exhibition circulated by the Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery of the University of Miami. It presents a comprehensive selection of over forty years of the artist's figurative portraits of the world's disenfranchised poor and working classes contrasted with their powerful employers and oppressors. A brand new, most handsome example of the Lowe Art Gallery deluxe edition in yellow pictorial boards housed in a yellow paper-over-boards slipcase limited to one hundred and fifty copies with the 8 ½ x 10 ½" black and white lithograph entitled "Grandfather" NUMBERED (123/150) AND SIGNED "Gropper." in pencil along the bottom margin of the recto along with the publisher's limitation slip laid in, as issued. This is separate and distinct from the edition of one hundred examples for the use of the artist that included a handful of copies bound in blue leather. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. LC 68-18437 Inventory Number: 024671