A portrait painter and landscape watercolorist, Charles Hopkinson maintained a studio in the Fenway Studios building in Boston from 1906 to 1962. He painted over 800 portraits in an appealing, direct... Read full biography
A portrait painter and landscape watercolorist, Charles Hopkinson maintained a studio in the Fenway Studios building in Boston from 1906 to 1962. He painted over 800 portraits in an appealing, direct style with a palette gradually lightening through his career. Many paintings were commissioned by... Read full biography
A portrait painter and landscape watercolorist, Charles Hopkinson maintained a studio in the Fenway Studios building in Boston from 1906 to 1962. He painted over 800 portraits in an appealing, direct style with a palette gradually lightening through his career. Many paintings were commissioned by East Coast institutions, especially Harvard, where he acted as house portraitist. Among his sitters were Oliver Wendell Holmes, Calvin Coolidge, and John Masefield. He began to draw for the "Lampoon"... Read full biography
A portrait painter and landscape watercolorist, Charles Hopkinson maintained a studio in the Fenway Studios building in Boston from 1906 to 1962. He painted over 800 portraits in an appealing, direct style with a palette gradually lightening through his career. Many paintings were commissioned by East Coast institutions, especially Harvard, where he acted as house portraitist. Among his sitters were Oliver Wendell Holmes, Calvin Coolidge, and John Masefield. He began to draw for the "Lampoon" upon his entrance to Harvard in 1888, and in 1891, he moved to New York to study at the Art Students' League where he worked with John Twachtman and H. Siddons Mowbray. Hopkinson studied at the Academie Julian in Paris with Edmond Aman-Jean, traveled... Read full biography
A portrait painter and landscape watercolorist, Charles Hopkinson maintained a studio in the Fenway Studios building in Boston from 1906 to 1962. He painted over 800 portraits in an appealing, direct style with a palette gradually lightening through his career. Many paintings were commissioned by East Coast institutions, especially Harvard, where he acted as house portraitist. Among his sitters were Oliver Wendell Holmes, Calvin Coolidge, and John Masefield. He began to draw for the "Lampoon" upon his entrance to Harvard in 1888, and in 1891, he moved to New York to study at the Art Students' League where he worked with John Twachtman and H. Siddons Mowbray. Hopkinson studied at the Academie Julian in Paris with Edmond Aman-Jean, traveled to Brittany, and exhibited in the 1895 Paris Salon. In the late 1890's he worked in Cambridge, Massachusetts and showed his paintings i... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (52)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
American Paintings from the Hainsworth Collection
2005
Love, Richard; Michael Worley, Ph.D
157 pages (color)
Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors Circles of Influence, A Timeline
2004
Vose, Marcia (editor)
38 pages (color)
Wind and Dazzle: The Art of Charles S. Hopkinson (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Lipton, Leah (Essay)
12 pages (color)
Vose Art Notes Works on Paper
2000
Vose, Marcia L , editor
29 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors Art and Collecting in America
1999
Jarzombek, NA, Marcia Vose
29 pages (color)
The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
187 pages
Mary Bradish Titcomb and Her Contemporaries at the Fenway Studios (Exhibition catalog)
1998
Vose Galleries
54 pages (color)
A Nation's Pride Art in the White House
1992
Kloss, William (et al)
375 pages (color)
American Paintings for New Collectors
1991
Schwarz-Philadelphia
64 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons
1990
Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface
430 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
The Portrait in Britain and America with Biographical Dictionary of Portraitists 1680-1914
1987
Simon, Robin
255 pages (color)
American Traditions in Watercolor Worcester Art Museum Collection
1987
Strickler, Susan (editor)
232 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
American Watercolors, Pastels, Collages The Brooklyn Museum
1984
Faunce, Sarah; Linda S. Ferber (Curators)
88 pages (color)
The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944 (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Marlor, Clark S
600 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
American Portraiture in the Grand Manner 1720-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Quick, Michael; William H Gerdts
228 pages (color)
American Painting from the Museum's Collection c1800-1930
1977
Rhode Island School of Design
241 pages
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975
Editor, Smithsonian
0 pages
Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set) (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Naylor, Maria
1,075 pages
Boston Painters 1720-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Boston University
70 pages
With An Eye on the Gallery American Painters in Oil
1966
Dodd, Loring Holmes
251 pages
The Story of the Armory Show (Exhibition catalog)
1963
Brown, Milton W
320 pages
Three Hundred Years of American Painting
1957
Eliot, Alexander
318 pages (color)
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
American Portraits by American Painters 1730-1944
1944
Knoedler Galleries
24 pages
20th Century Portraits (Exhibition catalog)
1942
Wheeler, Monroe
148 pages (color)
Portraits In the University of Pennsylvania
1940
Addison, Agnes (editor)
67 pages
Survey of American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1940
Carnegie Institute
320 pages
Half a Century of American Art The Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1939
Art Institute of Chicago
110 pages
Modern Art in America
1939
Cheney, Martha Candler
190 pages
First National Exhibition of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1936
Breckinridge, Mrs. (essay)
32 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1933
Harshe, Robert (Introduction)
215 pages
A Critical Introduction to American Painting
1931
Barker, Virgil
52 pages
The History and Ideals of American Art
1931
Neuhaus, Eugen
444 pages
Exhibition of Water Colors by Marion Monks Chase, Carl Gordon Cutter, Charles Hopkinson, Charles Hovey Pepper, Harley Perkins (Exhibition catalog)
1928
Editor, Fogg Art Museum
0 pages (color)
The History of American Painting (supplemental chapters by Royal Cortissoz)
1927
Isham, Samuel
608 pages
The Nebraska Art Association: Catalogue 22nd Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1916
15 pages
Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit
1915
Walter, John; Pedro Lemos
112 pages
Official Catalogue of Exhibitors Department B, Art (Exhibition catalog)