A pair of exhibitions in Washington—one at the Phillips Collection, the other at American University’s Katzen Arts Center—focus on masters of the political cartoon. Peter Plagens ...

At the age of 64, Painter William Gropper is, as one Manhattan critic wrote last week, “one of the honorable old guard of American painting.” But the phrase should not be taken to mean that ...

Satirical cartoons go back at least as far as the wall graffiti of Ancient Rome, but visual satire of the kind we are used to emerged only with the printing press. Artists whose main business was ...

The works in “William Gropper ... In the Joseph McCarthy era, Gropper and Rockwell Kent were the only visual artists targeted by the House Un-American Activities Committee.

The works in “William Gropper ... In the Joseph McCarthy era, Gropper and Rockwell Kent were the only visual artists targeted by the House Un-American Activities Committee.