W. J. Hopkinson Oil Painting - Called "Evening" in Edmonton, Alberta for sale

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Oil painting from Halls Lake - Haliburton, Ontario
Biography:
Born in London, England, William John Hopkinson studied there under Walter White, R.A., but was mostly self taught.
W.J. Hopkinson came to Canada in 1912 and exhibited with the Royal Canadian Academy and the Ontario Society of Artists. Although his talent was well respected and he went on painting trips with many leading painters, W.J. Hopkinson never achieved the same level of acclaim.
W.J. 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, but also on trips to the 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.
W.J. Hopkinson was known to travel into the dense bush and forests in the Haliburton area and paint 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 dramatically coloured skies.
There are few examples of W.J. Hopkinson painting on canvas. Works from the early part of his career, such as the 1940s, are also rare. He painted many of these with a brush, and the size of the panels tend to be smaller.
Source of the biography as from FineArtCollector.ca
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