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Hopkins’ Art In Spotlight On Cape Cod

Artwork by a Wheeling native and celebrated artist, the late Budd Hopkins, has been featured in two exhibitions on Cape Cod this summer.

An exhibition, titled “Budd Hopkins: Full Circle,” concludes a six-week run today at the Provincetown (Mass.) Art Association and Museum.

Grace Hopkins, the artist’s daughter and an artist in her own right, served as the exhibition curator.

Officials of the art museum stated, “This exhibition surveys the art of Budd Hopkins in depth, from his early abstract expressionist works, to his collage-based period, to his final painting series of ‘dancing guardians.'”

The exhibition primarily featured paintings, with supporting prints and drawings. A fully illustrated catalog was created for the show.

Meanwhile, some of Budd Hopkins’ work also was shown in a complementary exhibit at the Berta Walker Gallery’s site in Wellfleet, Mass., from June 17 through July 15. That exhibit was titled “Wellfleet Artists of the BWG.”

Grace Hopkins is the manager of the Berta Walker Gallery. Her work was featured in an exhibit titled “Edgy Women of BWG” at the gallery’s main site in Provincetown. The exhibit, which ran from July 28 until Aug. 19, included work by West Virginia native and celebrated artist Blanche Lazzell (1889-1978). Lazzell, of course, was a contemporary and good friend of the late Edith Lake Wilkinson, a Wheeling native and noted artist.

Budd Hopkins, who was born in Wheeling in 1931, died at the age of 80 in New York in 2011. The distinguished Abstract Expressionist artist was inducted into the Wheeling Hall of Fame in 1992.

An obituary published in the New York Times noted that in addition to his recognition as a painter and sculptor, he was regarded as “the father of the alien-abduction movement” and was well known as a U.F.O. investigator.

The New York Times article stated that his work was in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the British Museum in London.

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As anticipated, area movie fans have turned out in large numbers to see another Wheeling Hall of Fame member, John Corbett, on the big screen in his new film, “All Saints.”

The designated screening room at Marquee Cinemas at The Highlands was packed with theater-goers for the premiere of “All Saints” last weekend.

Audiences applauded loudly at the conclusion of the movie and clapped even more enthusiastically when Corbett’s name appeared on screen in the closing credits.

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Wheeling residents Ed Phillips and Sister Mary Clark, CSJ, have joined the board of trustees of the Ohio County Public Library.

They replace longtime board members Michael Baker and Leslie Nutting, respectively. Phillips and Clark join continuing board members Jimmie McCamic, Greg Marquart and Anthony Werner.

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Carnegie Hall in Lewisburg became the permanent home of the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame exhibit in August.

The ongoing exhibit will feature a rotating selection of memorabilia, artwork, photographs, show posters, stage clothes, instruments and recordings from artists who have made their mark on the musical landscape of the Mountain State.

Past inductees into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame include Kathy Mattea, Bill Withers, Hazel Dickens and Wheeling native Tim O’Brien.

Linda Comins can be reached via email at: lcomins@theintelli gencer.net

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