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Article: A bit too pleasing from this `View' ; Cape Ann exhibit shows a painter who took few risks
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 23, 2009
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GLOUCESTER - "View From the Terrace: The Paintings of Charles
Hopkinson" at the Cape Ann Museum puts the viewer on the sea-swept
lawn at Sharksmouth, the artist's Manchester home, where he made
many of his more personal works. Wide-ranging but often intimate in
its subject matter, "View From the Terrace" presents Hopkinson as a
driven, sometimes flawed artist and a doting paterfamilias.
In his day - the first half of the 20th century - Hopkinson was
an important painter in these parts, hobnobbing with John Singer
Sargent and Maurice Prendergast, among others. He was an avid,
increasingly experimental technician and a sympathetic portraitist,
but he didn't have Sargent's derring-do or ...