Ernest Hopf

Original--Recto:Signed in black ink in LR corner of image:E. Hopf ' 43Verso:In pencil along bottom edge on right:84.198.266

Marks: Stamped in blue ink on verso:COLLECTORS OF AMERICAN ART, Inc./NEW YORK, N.Y.inscribed in circle.

Label: Accompanying label from Collectors of Amercian Art: SHIPYARD-a Silk-screen print,-by ERNEST HOPF./comes to you with/CHRISTMAS GREETINGS from "COLLECTORS"/Born in 1910, Ernest Hopf was brought to America from Germany as a very yound child.Still quite young, he went to sea and, while a sailor, he became interested in art.There followed perods of study both here and in Europe.Since 1939, Mr. Hopf has given much time to Lithography and the Silk-screen medium, -in fact he is a Founder-Member and one-time President of the Silk-screen Group of the Artists League of America/Mr. Hopf exhibits extensively, and his work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum, the Philadelphia Museum, the Springfield Museum, and the University of Iowa, and the Museum of Modern Art awarded him Honorable Mention in a recent exhibition of Silk-screen prints,/COLLECTORS is happy to present this work of art as/part of the 1943 December Distribution