Nationality
American
Artist Dates
1919-1996
Preview
Medium
Postcard
Height
4"
Width
6"
Collection/Provenance
Art & Design Study Collection, James Smith Pierce Collection
Status
Stored: FF_012_C
Location
UND Art Collections Repository
Artist Bio
William Copley, also known as CPLY, was born in 1919 in New York, NY and passed away in 1996. Copley was sent to Phillips Andover and then to Yale University by his adoptive parents, but was later drafted into World War II in the middle of his Yale education. He is best known for his mixture of European Surrealist and American Pop Art paintings. William Copley has work in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Stedelijk Museum, and many more.
Additional Information
Artists' Postcards Series I
Original piece used liquitex and india inx. Use of yellow and brown depiction of figures huddled together in the center with triangles in the background.
UND Art Collections owns 1 copy of this postcard.
Postcard Reverse
Text in upper left hand corner of postcard:
William Copley, Garden for Black Tears
Liquitex and india inx
© Artists' Postcards 1977
Text in center bottom of postcard:
Original work traveling under Smithsonian Institution auspices 1978-80.
77-78F 1-2 Produced by Publishing Center for Cultural Resources, N.Y.C.
Condition
Very good
Rights
Images are provided for educational purposes only and may not be reproduced for commercial use. Images may be protected by artist copyright. A credit line is required to be used for any public non-commercial educational purpose. The credit line must include, “Image courtesy of the University of North Dakota.”