James R. Hopkins : faces of the heartland / Mark B. Pohlad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pohlad, Mark B. (Mark Borner), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hopkins, James Roy, 1877-1969.

Hopkins, James Roy.

Artists--Ohio--Biography.

Artists.

College teachers--Ohio--Biography.

College teachers.

Ohio.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xviii, 249 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press,Trillium, an imprint and the Columbus Museum of Art, [2017]

Summary:

James R. Hopkins: Faces of the Heartland is the first extensive examination of this noted American painter, and one of Ohio's most significant artists. Bom in tiny Irwin, Ohio, and raised on a farm outside Mechanicsburg, Ohio, he garnered many official honors and exhibited alongside the most famous artists of his time. Hopkins's wife was Edna Boies Hopkins, a modernist printmaker known for her colored woodblock prints. Living in Paris, he painted modish women and Impressionist nudes, but his most important works are those he made in rural, south-eastern Kentucky in the Cumberland Falls region. He painted the Appalachian people he encountered there in a penetrating and distinctive style. He was the first American painter to do so, and his works look forward to the style known as Regionalism that emerged some fifteen years later. Hopkins was for decades a dynamic teacher and administrator, first at the Cincinnati Art Academy, where he replaced his mentor Frank Duveneck, then at The Ohio State University where his presence is still felt. The research for this study is taken from archival sources, primary documents and university archives. The result is the introduction of a previously under-recognized American master into the canon of American art history. Book jacket.

Contents:

A central Ohio boyhood: land, family, and art

The student Hopkins

Marriage, career, and the city of light

Cincinnati, 1914-23

The Cumberland Suite

The Cumberland paintings in history

Professor Hopkins of The Ohio State University

Retirement and other passions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-233) and index.

ISBN:

9780814254578

0814254578

OCLC:

990248466