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...dean of U.S. portraitists is Boston's Charles Hopkinson. But for all his fame and his 79 years, Hopkinson has never painted a portrait that holds a mirror up to nature. Even if that were possible, he argues, it would not be enough-"a good portrait exists in a separate world, it is not a mirror, and the artist who paints merely to hit off a likeness or, what's worse to please his sitter, is lost...
Among the best of Hopkinson's portraits is that of Oliver Wendell Holmes (which succeeds in showing the living man as well as the leonine Justice) and the incisive, unflattering one of Calvin Coolidge that hangs in the White House lobby...
...please himself, Hopkinson does watercolors between portrait commissions. Last week Boston's Margaret Brown Gallery was exhibiting the landscapes he painted on a trip to New Zealand last year. The work of a lifelong sailor, his watercolors are sometimes as taut with motion as a sailboat in a stiff breeze...
...MARCH OF TIME) is a scoop by a British UNRRA cameraman, Peter Hopkinson, who has made more intimate shots of Russian life than most foreigners manage to, and has succeeded in bringing his film out uncensored. There are revealing glimpses of plain Russians in the streets, in hospitals, in theaters, in churches, in schools, in orphanages. Some of the film's most interesting revelations are not breathless news, but are very convincing. Among the strong impressions left by this study of scores of faces: 1) Russians are bitterly poor but their fortitude evidently goes as deep as their poverty...
...Trade. The National Association of Manufacturers, consistently opposed to tariff reductions that would allow foreign goods to enter the U.S. market, plumped for bigger exports. NAMer Frank L. Hopkinson told a Senate subcommittee on foreign trade that high-grade American salesmen "trained in smelling out a market" should be added to the diplomatic corps...