William nelson copley print 1898
William nelson copley print 1898
William nelson copley print 1898 collection.
William Copley (artist)
William N. Copley (January 24, – May 7, ) also known as CPLY, was an American painter, writer, gallerist, collector, patron, publisher and art entrepreneur.[1] His works as an artist have been classified as late Surrealist and precursory to Pop art.[2]
Early life and introduction to art
Copley was born in New York City in to parents John and Flora Lodwell; they died shortly after in the Spanish Flu epidemic.
Copley was adopted in by Ira C. Copley, the owner of sixteen newspaper companies in Chicago and San Diego.[3] Ira C. Copley remarried after the death of his wife, Edith, several years after the adoption took place.
The three lived in Aurora, Illinois, until Copley was ten years old whereby the family moved to Coronado Island, California.[4]
Copley was sent to Phillips Andover and then Yale University by his adopted parents.
He was drafted in the Second World War in the middle of his education at Yale