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William John Hopkinson (November 25, 1887 - February 21, 1970) was a Canadian artist best known for his ''en plein air'' style landscapes and marine scenes.〔(A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 (online only), by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker. National Gallery of Canada, Artists in Canada database. ) Retrieved July 17, 2014.〕 Born in London, England, W.J. Hopkinson studied art there briefly but was mostly self taught. Hopkinson came to Canada in 1912. He exhibited with the Royal Canadian Academy, the Ontario Society of Artists and the Nova Scotia Society of Artists. Although his talent was well respected and he went on painting trips with many leading painters, Hopkinson never achieved the same level of acclaim as some of his contemporaries. Hopkinson worked mainly in oils, with landscapes of forests, winter scenes and docked boats, but many pencil sketches have also survived. He painted from the 1930s until 1970, most often in the Aurora to Haliburton area of Ontario, Canada. He also painted scenes from trips to the Canadian East Coast and to Massachusetts. He also made one trip back to his home country of England, but he only painted a handful of scenes in London. Hopkinson was known to travel into the dense bush and forests in the Haliburton area and paint'' en plein air'' oil paintings on panels using palette knives, laying on thick layers of oil paint. This technique was suited to portraying the ruggedness of the landscape around him, showing fallen trees, forests and lakes under skies coloured in dramatic shades of blues, pinks and orange. The artist taught at the St. Croix School of Art, New Brunswick, and at several centres in Ontario. Hopkinson was honoured by the Ontario Society of Artists by having his painting "Town House" hung at the 70th annual spring exhibition being held at The Art Gallery of Toronto in 1942.〔The Express-Herald (newspaper), Newmarket, ON, March 12, 1942.〕 Hopkinson held his first one-man show of paintings at the Main Branch of The North York Public Library in the autumn of 1966 and subsequently at other library branches of North York that year. The artist was most active in art circles in the Newmarket and Aurora area, northwest of Toronto. Hopkinson was a founder of the Newmarket Art Club, and member of the Willowdale Group of Artists and the Society of Co-operative Artists, Toronto. After his death on February 21, 1970, a retrospective exhibit and sale was held. His friend, artist Isabelle Vanzant, did a portrait for the exhibition cover. == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William John Hopkinson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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