Harry Ryle Hopps

{{Short description|American businessman and artist}}

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Harry Ryle Hopps (1869 – August 24, 1937, Los Angeles) was an American businessman and artist. He was the son of George Hopps and Ann Hopps, both artists. George Hopps was a stage set designer. Harry Ryle Hopps and his brother Bert owned the United Glass Company of San Francisco from {{circa|1880}} to {{circa|1918}}. Hopps subsequently moved to Los Angeles, where he worked as an art director on a number of films such as The Thief of Bagdad.{{cite web |last=Hughes|first=Edan |title=Harry Ryle Hopps |url=http://www.askart.com/askart/h/harry_ryle_hopps/harry_ryle_hopps.aspx |website=askart.com |publisher=AskART |access-date=2015-02-04}}

The United Glass Company were responsible for the stained glass at the Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, California.{{cite news |last=Bartlett|first=Jean |title=A stroll within the catacombs of Cypress Lawn |url=http://www.mercurynews.com/pacifica-news/ci_23903849/stroll-within-catacombs-cypress-lawn |newspaper=The Mercury News |access-date=2015-02-04}} Hopps designed the recruiting poster Destroy this Mad Brute: Enlist, published in 1917,{{cite web |title=War of Cultures |url=http://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/ww1/tour/7.html |website=getty.edu |publisher=J. Paul Getty Museum |access-date=2015-02-04}} which shows a gorilla with a pickelhaube helmet labeled "militarism" holding a bloody club labeled "Kultur" and Lady Liberty topless held captive as he stomps onto the shore of America, illustrating anti-German sentiment in the U.S. during World War I.