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Edna Boies Hopkins (1872-1937) was a printmaker and educator in New York City, New York. She is known for her woodblock prints inspired by Japanese techniques.
Born in Hudson, Michigan, in 1872 Boies studied a general art course at the Art Academy of Cincinnati from 1895 to 1899 and studied woodblock printmaking at the Pratt Institute in New York under Arthur Wesley Dow. For the academic year of 1902-03, Boies taught composition and design at the Veltin School for Girls in Manhattan.
Boies married art educator James Roy Hopkins in 1904 and travelled the world with him, spending time in Japan where she further studied Ukiyo-e woodblock print making. The couple settled in Paris in 1905 before returning to the United States at the start of World War I. From 1914 to 1920 Edna Hopkins was involved with the Provincetown Printers, lived in Paris from 1920 to 1923, and then abandoned printmaking in 1923, possibly due to arthritis. Nevertheless, Boies Hopkins had established a reputation as an accomplished woodblock printer and teacher whose work was influenced by Ukiyo-e prints, B.J.O. Nordfeldt and the Provincetown Printers, and European Post-Impressionism.
