[Johnny Appleseed] / Wm. Gropper. – Historic Reproduction
![[Johnny Appleseed] / Wm. Gropper., [1941] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/60/605c63d4d387-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with [Johnny Appleseed] / Wm. Gropper., an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Johnny Appleseed] / Wm. Gropper.
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Here the subject is John Chapman, the frontier nurseryman known as Johnny Appleseed (1774-1845), who planted apple orchards across Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois and became a folk hero in the decades after his death. William Gropper, a New York artist associated with the social realist movement of the 1930s and 1940s, drew this portrait as a lithograph in 1941, signing it both on the stone and in pencil. The print belongs to a wave of American art that reinterpreted pioneer legends, often through the lens of hard work and the common man, and Gropper's portrait gives Chapman a plainspoken, weathered presence rather than the whimsical tone of later storybooks.
| Created / published | [1941] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Portrait prints 1940-1950.Lithographs 1940-1950. |
| Notes | Signed on stone and in pencil. |
| Subjects | Appleseed, Johnny,--1774-1845. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 900 × 1,293 px · prints to 3 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | Johnny Appleseed |
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