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Arthur Hopkins (October 4, 1878 – March 22, 1950) was an American Broadway theatre producer in the early twentieth century. Between 1912 and 1948, he produced and staged more than 80 plays – an average of more than two per year – occasionally writing and directing as well.
Arthur Hopkins was a London-born landscape and genre painter in water-colour and oil, and also an illustrator. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of Painters in Water-colours, and was the brother of poet Gerard Manley Hopkins.
rthur Hopkins, born only eight years after Hardy, lived to the age of 82. Whereas Gerard Manley Hopkins, his famous older brother, was born in 1844, Arthur, son of a prosperous marine insurance agent, was born on 30th December, 1848, in Stratford, London.
Overview. Arthur Hopkins. (1878—1950) Quick Reference. (1878–1950) American director and producer. Influenced by the writings of Wagner and Craig and productions of Reinhardt, Hopkins was instrumental in introducing the ‘New Theatre’ and—in his collaborations with designer ...
A collection of materials related to the theatrical producer and director Arthur Hopkins, who worked with John Barrymore, Alla Nazimova, Eugene O'Neill and others. The papers include promptbooks, scripts, programs, photographs, clippings, writings and correspondence.
Born in London, Arthur Hopkins (1848-1930) was a landscape and genre painter as well as an accomplished illustrator. Educated first at Lancing College in Sussex, he went on to study at Royal Academy Schools.
Arthur Hopkins worked with equal success as an illustrator and painter. Establishing his reputation through contributions to literary and news magazines in the 1870s, he gradually developed as a watercolourist of landscapes and genre scenes that, in their sensitivity, have been compared to the work of Helen Allingham.
