The Portrait Painter and His Subject
One of the most distinguished portrait painters New England has produced, CHARLES HOPKINSON painted the leading lights of Harvard during the administrations of Presidents Eliot, Lowell, and Conant — and with such success that his fame spread far beyond his beloved Cambridge. Now in his eighties and still painting — he had a very successful showing of his portraits and water colors at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston last winter — his mind harks back to those days when Cambridge was a country town and when he, an aspirant in his early twenties, was just getting his start in Paris.