1. Emery Bopp was an American artist and long-time chairman of the Division of Art, Bob Jones University.
15 Facts About Emery Bopp
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Emery Bopp had early displayed artistic as well as musical and athletic ability, and in the hospital corps he was put to work designing invitations and party decorations.
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Emery Bopp then moved on to the Yale University School of Art, where he received his BFA in 1951 and where his artistic vision was expanded by study under Josef Albers, Alvin Eisenman, Alvin Lustig, and Willem de Kooning.
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Emery Bopp later attended New York University and earned an MFA at Rochester Institute of Technology in 1961.
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In 1951 Emery Bopp joined the art faculty of Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina.
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Emery Bopp employed his formidable intelligence to make us into artists and to feed our souls.
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Emery Bopp was a man of such deep spirituality that it was his and rock solid and didn't need to be propped up by talking about it and pushing it on students.
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Emery Bopp was an active member of the South Carolina Artist's Guild, exhibiting extensively and adjudicating competitions throughout the southeast.
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Emery Bopp won numerous awards, and his work is represented in such museums and permanent collections as the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, the Hunter Gallery in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the South Carolina Arts Commission, Erskine College, the High Museum of Art, and the Greenville County Museum of Art.
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Emery Bopp produced sculpture; and for thirty summers, he was associated with the studio of Louis Paul Jonas.
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Emery Bopp was a versatile artist using a variety of pictorial techniques in his paintings.
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In 1970, Emery Bopp joined two other BJU faculty members, Darell Koons and Carl Blair, in founding Hampton III Gallery, one of the first commercial galleries in Upstate South Carolina.
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Emery Bopp enjoyed performing in BJU films and Shakespearean productions, nearly making a career of playing harmless old men.
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In 2003 Emery Bopp was diagnosed with a form of Alzheimer's disease, but he continued to paint and held a final exhibition at Hampton III Gallery in November 2006.
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Emery Bopp was survived by his wife, son, and two daughters, Sue Ann Phillips and Laurie Hartz.