Although she is best known locally and regionally as the wife of Ohio artist James Roy Hopkins, Adna Boies Hopkins was in her own right an artist of amazing talent and great sophistication. Trained at the Art Acedemy of Cincinnati and then with Arthur Wesley Down in New York City, Hopkins became a color woodblock prink maker. Moving to Paris in 1905, where they lived as expatriates until the outbreak of World War I, Edna and James each practiced an individual art form. Edna's success as a creator of floral studies and compositions grew rapidly, and she placed her works in numerous important collections. Traveling often between the United States and Fance, and with homesin New York, Columbus, Maine, and a studio in Provincetown, Massachusetts, Edna's international reputation became firmly established until her career was cut shot by severe arthritis while shw was in her early fifties.

The Columbus Museum of Art is organizing an exhibition fo fifty of Edna Hopkin's color woodblcok prints covering from her entire career and featuring her best-known subjects: floral compositions, figural works, especially those producedin Appalachia, and landscapres made in Provincetown.