Notes on Mark Hopkins

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Mark Hopkins is a well-known member of the American community of rug enthusiasts. He is president of the New England Rug Society, and has written articles for HALI and Oriental Rug Review as well as co-authoring (with Julia Bailey) the 1991 exhibition catalog Through The Collector's Eye -- Oriental Rugs From New England Private Collections. He has been a speaker at ACOR 1, ACOR 3, ACOR 4, and the Textile Museum, and has delivered his popular Good Rug? Great Rug? presentation on carpet-weaving esthetics to many rug societies in the U.S. and Canada. Mark was an organizer of the past three ACOR conferences, and currently serves on the ACOR Board of Directors. He is an active collector specializing in Baluch and Anatolian tribal weavings. He is recently retired from the advertising business, where he served for many years as a freelance creative writer.

Bailey, J. & Hopkins, M. Through The Collectors Eye: Oriental Rugs from New England Private Collections. Providence: Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design, 1991

A very good look at a broad range of rugs and carpets by Mark Hopkins and Julia Bailey. Draws heavily on the Rudnick, Paquin, and Varteresian, collections. Very good structural analyses included. My copy was autographed by Mark Hopkins, Rug Convention 1995.

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"Good Rug? Great Rug?" Denver: ACOR4 Focus Session, 1998.
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Good Rug? Great Rug? ACOR 3, Sunday, January 28 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. Carousel A & B "Employing a new and different presentation format than invites audience participation, Mark Hopkins will use slides to display many pairs of rugs for comparative evaluation and comment by a panel of experts. The emphasis will be entirely on aesthetics, addressing those prickly questions "How good is it?" and "What makes it so good?" Oriental Rug Review ACOR 3 Preview
How Good is my Rug Collecting, by Mark Hopkins, Will grieving survivors find your collection wanting? Oriental Rug Review Vol. IX, No. 3, February/March, 1989
Diamonds in the Pile, Jaf Kurd Bagfaces,, by Mark Hopkins Oriental Rug Review
South Persian Masterworks, Part Il, exhibition review by Mark Hopkins Oriental Rug Review Vol. 11, No. 1, October/November, 1990, VI I.C.O.C. Focus
The Week the Baluchs Came to Manhattan, by Mark Hopkins. Oriental Rug Review Vol. 11, No. 2, December/January, 1991
A Rug Collection in New England, interviews by Mark Hopkins. Oriental Rug Review Vol. 12, No. 3, February/March, 1992
Reviews of focus sessions and events by Emily Sanford, David Levine, Mark Hopkins, Ann Nicholas. Oriental Rug Review Vol. 14, No. 4, April/May. 1994
Lead Article: The Painted Carpet, by Mark Hopkins. Oriental Rug Review Vol. 15, No. 1, October/November 1994
Through the Collector's Eye: Oriental Rugs from New England Private Collections, Bailey, Julia and Hopkins, Mark, reviewed by O'Bannon, George W., Oriental Rug Review XII/3/44-45
Hopkins, Mark, "Rug Collecting in New England", Oriental Rug Review XII/3/22-27
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Hali, 93, July 1997. Mark Hopkins,Baluch prayer rugs, p78-83, with 11 C ill;
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