William Fowler Hopson
Beroemd om fijne ex libris
William Fowler Hopson, geboren in Watertown, Connecticut, was vooral bekend om zijn boekexlibris, hoewel hij ook werkte als schilder, graveur, etsenaar en illustrator. In 1867 was hij kort in de leer bij Henry Curtis, een graveur uit Hartford. Vervolgens werkte hij samen met Lockwood Sanford in New Haven. Na het bestuderen van het werk van J. D. Felter en August Will in New York, opende hij rond 1872 een graveeratelier met Roger Sherman. In 1885 he began working in a studio/workshop in his home. His first bookplate design, an etching, was produced in 1892. Among his important commissions were a set of over two thousand engravings for a late-nineteenth-century edition of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary and engraved illustrations for an edition of a George Eliot novel. Hopson exhibited works at the Paris Exposition of 1900 and was a member of many art organizations, among them the Grolier Society of New York, the Club of Odd Volumes in Boston, the California Bookplate Society, and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. In 1901 he received an honorable mention at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo.
Artworks by this artist (14 total)
- Academic study 1885
- Frederick W. Skiff 1902
- Academic study 1884
- River Landscape ca. 1900
- George Seymour Godard 1921
- Yale University Library 1901
- Yale University Library
- College Woods ca. 1900
- New Haven Free Public Library 1893
- Josephine E. S. Porter 1895
- Academic study
- William Fowler Hopson 1893
- Clara Therese Evans
- Frederic J Libbie 1895