grosser wrote four books on painting and art criticism: "painting in public/painting in our time" (alfred a. knoff, 1948/chater books, 1964), "the painter's eye" (rinehart and co., 1951), "critic's eye" (the bobbs-merrill company, inc., 1962), and "painter's progress" (clarkson n. potter, inc., 1971). at the time of his death, grosser was writing a memoir entitled "visiting gertrude stein and alice toklas" which was posthumously published in "the company they kept: writers on unforgettable friendships" (new york review books, 2006).