Oil and paper collage on board, 1974. 340x624 mm; 13 3/8x24 1/2 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right recto.
Provenance: Lerner-Heller Gallery, New York, with the label; William Zierler, Inc., with the label; private collection, New York.
Hopkins (1931-2011) was born in West Virginia and contracted polio as a child; during his recovery process he started to draw and developed an interest in watercolor. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1953 with a degree in art history and moved to New York. He met many of the artists of the New York school, embraced Abstract Expressionism and began working in one of his preferred media: collage. He received the 1976 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Painting and a 1979 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for Painting. His work is held in the permanent collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington and the British Museum, London, among others.
