Charles Hopkinson’s experimentations in color theory resulted in a modern, fauvist style of painting, drastically different from the earlier portraits, but of an equally notable quality. In a 1932 Boston Evening Transcript review, one critic wrote: “As aquarellist, [Hopkinson] invites his artistic soul. He tries out new schemes in design; he plays around with new color motives, he essays abstraction…less interested in fidelity to surface appearance of things in nature than he is in working out a design which has its own logic of color and mass.” Most of Hopkinson’s watercolors were created in and around his Manchester homestead, but a number were also done during his extensive travels both in the States and abroad, such as Girl on Irish Path, painted on the property of the Canadian embassy in Dublin. Hopkinson’s oldest daughter Happy married Alfred Rive, who served as the Canadian ambassador to Dublin from 1955 to 1964.

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