Edna Boies Hopkins — (2007)
Strong in Character, Colorful in Expression
By Dominique H. Vasseur
Edna Boies Hopkins (1872–1937) is best known for her
floral woodblock prints that range from delicate Japanese-inspired
stylizations to boldly colored and progressively
modernist works. In her brief twenty-year career, Hopkins produced
seventy-four known woodblock prints, including figurative
work and landscapes as well as floral compositions. This catalogue
raisonné is the first in-depth study of this once well-known American
artist. It illustrates all of Hopkins’s known prints, related drawings, and
studies.
Born in Hudson, Michigan, Hopkins attended the Art Academy of Cincinnati
from 1895 to 1898. In 1899 she took classes with the influential artist Arthur
Wesley Dow, an advocate of Japanese art. Following her marriage in 1904, Hopkins
and her husband settled in Paris, where they remained until the outbreak
of World War I. After returning to America, Hopkins became part of a small
group of artists in Provincetown, whose innovations in woodblock printmaking
have come to be known as the Provincetown print or the white line woodcut. In
1917, a visit to the Cumberland Falls region of Kentucky provided the inspiration
for some of Hopkins’s most important prints which predate the work of
American regionalist painters and printmakers by a decade or more.
In addition to the catalogue raisonné, Edna Boies Hopkins includes much new biographical research along with a census of her prints and a comprehensive list of her exhibitions.
Exhibition Dates
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH,
December 14, 2007–March 2, 2008
Springfield Museum of Art,
Springfield, OH, beginning March 2008
Provincetown Art Association and Museum,
Provincetown, MA, beginning June 2008
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1-800-621-2736.
$28 (paperback)
ISBN: 0-8214-1769-X
ISBN 13: 978-0-8214-1769-0
144 pages
illus., 8 × 10
Published in association with the Columbus Museum of Art
Dominique H. Vasseur, curator of European art at the Columbus Museum of Art, is the author of The Soul Unbound: The Photographs of Jane Reece and The Lithographs of Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret.
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