Edna Boies Hopkins (américaine, 1872-1937) Canoes. 1917. Bois gravé. 230 x 255. Vasseur 6. Impression en couleurs. Très belle épreuve, très fraîche de couleurs, sur japon vergé, signée et numérotée à la mine de plomb. Rousseurs claires éparses, essentiellement marginales. Petites auréoles d'humidité très claires en pied. Toutes marges. Cadre. À propos de cette planche et des suivantes, Dominique H. Vasseur écrit: «Although she spent part of the summer in Provincetown, Hopkins's experience in southern Kentucky in 1917 was a rich and successful one. Works such as Moutain Women (cat. n° 15), Mary and her Grandmother (cat. n° 13), Canoes (cat. n° 6) and Cascades (cat. n° 7) are exceptional images that show her at the height of her artistic powers. [...] Cascades [or its] alternate title, The Waves, implies that it depicts the surf of the ocean, perhaps at Provincetown, but it is almost certainly a view of women bathing in the waters of the Cumberland Falls. [...] Oral tradition maintains that both prints depict women of the Lippelman family of Glendale (Cincinnati), Ohio, good friends of Edna and James Hopkins who like the Hopkinses had a home in Paris and vacationed in Provincetown. [...] Hopkins's prints and her husband's paintings inspired by the Cumberland Mountains people were some of the first in the country to document this overlooked but inherently American culture.» (Dominique H. Vasseur, Edna Boies Hopkins: Strong in Character, Colorful in Expression, Ohio UP, in association with the Columbus Museum of Art, 2007, p. 26-28.)