Apr 15 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2700 -

Sale 2700 - Lot 6

Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
EDNA BOIES HOPKINS (1872 - 1937)
Violets and Phlox (Florals).

Color woodcut on Japan paper, circa 1909-1913. 280x187 mm; 11x7⅜ inches, wide margins. Signed in pencil, lower left. Vasseur 69.
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Hopkins was born in Hudson, Michigan and moved to Chicago after she married at the age of 19. She did not begin practicing art until 1895 when she enrolled in the Cincinnati Art Academy after the death of her husband. She studied there for four years before moving to New York to continue her training at the Pratt Institute under Arthur Wesley Dow where she discovered Japanese Ukiyo-e woodcuts.

She subsequently started making prints, and after she married her second husband, James Hopkins, they traveled around the world on their honeymoon, stopping in Japan to study printmaking. They lived in Paris amongst American artists such as Blanche Lazzell and Ethel Mars, before returning to Cincinnati with the onset of the first world war. They spent the summers between 1915 and 1920 in Provincetown, as part of the original cohort of artist colony Provincetown Printers, embracing and pioneering the white line method of woodcuts. She printed each of her color woodcuts, like many other practitioners of this technique in her day, as unique works of art and not exact facsimile images part of an edition. The color inks were applied directly to the woodblocks with brushes and dabbing, like painting on a canvas, and each of the impressions retain a unique character as a result.

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