William Gropper, 1897-1977 The Wanderer, c. 1960 Ink with wash on paper, 16" x 14" Hillstrom Museum of Art, gift of Reverend Richard L. Hillstrom ('38)
The following text was written collaboratively by Elizabeth Baer, Professor of English, and Donald Myers, director, Hillstrom Museum of Art. It was produced as part of a new program of the Hillstrom Museum of Art, titled FOCUS IN/ON, in which individual works in the Hillstrom Collection are explored in depth in a collaborative process that engages the expertise of College community members across the curriculum.
My interest in Linguistics dates back to my years in high school, where I enjoyed Spanish classes and I was deeply attracted to the Spanish grammar and the syntactic analysis of complex sentences. That…