Inscribed lower left, "The Senator 4/50". Gropper (d. 1977) was known for his satirical political images, many of U.S. senators. According to some IRC residents who knew Everett Dirksen, Illinois Republican Minority Leader of the Senate from 1959 until his death in 1969, this looks like him, but the usual dating of the print to the early 1940s would preclude that identification. Gift of IRC resident Amy Millen.