William Nelson Copley Biography
New York, 1919 ? 1996
American SURREALIST painter and printmaker William Nelson Copley captured his inventive imagination on canvas and paper, revealing a love for intricate and complicated design. It is not unusual for him to blend stripes, polka dots, plaids and checkers into a single, striking image. Born in New York in 1919 and educated at Yale University, Copley only began to paint for himself in 1947, when he opened his own gallery in California.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
1965 Surrealist exhibition, Paris
1963 Pop Art USA, Oakland Art Museum
1956 Salon de Mai Paris
1948 Los Angeles
SELECTED MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.
Art Institute of Chicago
Tate Gallery in London