Gropper was skilled in lithography and painting as well as cartooning, but did not exhibit his paintings until the 1930s. He also painted several government-sponsored murals…
"I react to life and its stimulant to me. It could be a phrase; it could be an attitude; it could be a mood. It’s broad, I’m open for any little thing, but I am of a period. I come from a sort of humanistic element. I love people, and when I draw or paint, it comes out of people, and the landscape is what these people make it."