Artwork Title: The Mountain Preacher

The Mountain Preacher

James Roy Hopkins

...in dramatic limited color design, he is mounted on a snow white mule, bareback with only a red and white checkered quilt for covering. The holy book is best carried under the left arm, leaving both hands free for deft maneuvers of the reins on the beast, while the leather binding is moistened with the stresses of the day. [http://aeqai.com/main/2017/10/artists-of-the-heartland-james-r-hopkins-and-edna-boies-hopkins/] Hopkins painted Vanover — a tall, thin man with a hawk nose, stooped shoulders, dark hair, sideburns and mustache — in various personas, including as “The Mountain Preacher,” as “Kentucky Mountaineer” and as the father in “Fisherman and Boy.” [http://www.dispatch.com/entertainmentlife/20171224/columbus-museum-of-art-features-former-ohio-state-art-department-chairman-hopkins-exhibit]
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