William and Noma Copley foundation and collection records 1954-1980

Milhaud, Darius, 1892-1974

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Milhaud was born in Aix-en-Provence on September 4, 1892. As a child he improvised melodies at the piano and soon took up the violin. He entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1909, studying the violin with Berthelier, ensemble with Lefèvre, harmony with Leroux, counterpoint with André Gédalge, composition and fugue with Charles-Marie Widor, and conducting with Vincent d'Indy. He received first "accessit" in violin and counterpoint, and second in fugue, winning the Prix Lepaulle for composition. Mil...

Copley, Noma

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Noma Copley (born Norma Rathner, July 31, 1916 – February 22, 2006) was an American fine arts jeweler and art collector noted for her contributions to Surrealist practices and activities. From 1953 through 1968, she was married to William Copley and, with him, helped to acquire one of the largest collections of Surrealist paintings and sculpture in America. In 1954, they established the William and Noma Copley Foundation (subsequently renamed the Cassandra Foundation), a non-profit organization ...

Lam, Wifredo, 1902-1982

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Bellmer, Hans, 1902-1975

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Polish-French artist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to John Rewald, 1966 Oct. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870289 German painter and printmaker. From the description of Letters, 1945-1950. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82724940 From the description of Letters to Pierre Andrieu, 1946-1948 (bulk 1946) (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79019427 B. Katowice, Germany in 1902. From the des...

Arp, Jean, 1887-1966

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French artist and poet. From the description of Letters, 1942-1947. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86093273 ...

Copley, William Nelson, 1919-1996

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William N. Copley (January 24, 1919 – May 7, 1996) also known as CPLY, was an American painter, writer, gallerist, collector, patron, publisher and art entrepreneur. His works as an artist have been classified as late Surrealist and precursory to Pop Art. From Wikipedia, accessed 16 July 2018: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Copley_(artist)...

Stevenson, Harold, 1929-

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B. 1929, IDABEL, OKLAHOMA Harold Stevenson was born in 1929 in Idabel, Oklahoma. Over the past six decades, the male figure—often nude and always sumptuously rendered—has dominated the oeuvre of the self-taught painter. Stevenson moved to New York to pursue art in 1949 and almost immediately befriended Andy Warhol. Stevenson would later become the subject of Warhol’s first film entitled Harold and would also appear in the pop artist’s video Heat (1972). In 1959, Stevenson relocated to Europe, w...

Mason, Raymond, 1922-2010

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Baj, Enrico, 1924-2003

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Italian artist. From the description of Pochette militaire (exhibition packet), 1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 146011501 ...

Tanning, Dorothea, 1910-2012

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Painter; New York, N.Y. From the description of Dorothea Tanning interview, 1990 July 11 - 1990 Nov. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220207872 Tanning, Dorothea, 1910, Painter of New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Dorothea Tanning 1990 July 11-Nov. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646400302 ...

Charchoune, Serge, 1888-1975

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Waldberg, Patrick

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Matta Echaurren, Roberto Sebastián, 1911-

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Flavin, Dan, 1933-1996

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Dan Flavin (April 1, 1933 – November 29, 1996) was an American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Flavin) ...

Pfriem, Bernard, 1914-

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Jones, Charles, 1910-

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Glanville-Hicks, Peggy

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Epithet: Australian composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000210.0x000283 ...

Turner, Charles (Palaeoenvironmentalist)

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Celmins, Vija, 1938-....

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Vija Celmins (1938- ) is a multimedia artist in New York, N.Y. Julia Brown (1951- ) is an independent scholar in San Antonio, Tex. From the description of Oral history interview with Vija Celmins, 2009 Feb. 11-Oct. 15 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646402687 ...

Ernst, Max, 1891-1976

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German-French Surrealist painter. From the description of Letter : Sedona, to Alfred Barr, 1947 Nov. 19. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 77955633 Max Ernst (1891-1976) was a painter and sculptor, from New York, N.Y. From the description of Max and Dorothea Ernst letters concerning Max Ernst's American citizenship status, [ca. 1957]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122403886 German painter. From the description of Letter, ca. 19...

Arman, 1928-2005

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Arman (1928-2005) was a sculptor from New York, N.Y. Born Armand Pierre Fernandez. Changed name to Armand Pierre Arman and known as Arman. From the description of Oral history interview with Arman, 1968 May 18 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495595110 ...

Metcalf, James, 1925-

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Sage, Kay

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Painter; Woodbury, Conn. Born 1898 in Albany, N.Y. Married surrealist painter Yves Tanguay. Died 1963. From the description of China eggs / Kay Sage. 1955. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84558254 From the description of Kay Sage papers, 1925 - circa 1985 bulk 1950-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220236569 Kay Sage was born Katherine Linn Sage in Albany, New York in 1898 to Ann and Henry Manning Sage, a state senator. After her parents divorced she ...

Hamilton, Richard, 1922-2011

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De Maria, Walter, 1935-2013

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Walter De Maria (1935) is a sculptor from New York, N.Y. Worked as an Abstract Expressionist painter early in his career before turning to sculpture. Influenced by San Francisco jazz scene of 1950s. From the description of Oral history interview with Walter De Maria, 1972 Oct. 4 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83637039 ...

Christo, 1935-

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Christo (American/Bulgarian, b.1935) is a sculptor best known for his unique wrapped works, which span from small-scale wrapped books to entire buildings and sites in nature, encased in fabric. Christo, born Christo Vladimiroff Javacheff, attended the art academy in Sofia as a youth, trained in the Socialist Realist aesthetic of the era. He moved to Prague, where he was first exposed to the work of early European modernists, and later to Paris, where he befriended a group of artists including Yv...

Kelkel, Manfred

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William and Noma Copley Foundation

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William Nelson Copley (1919-1996) was a Surrealist painter, art collector, and philanthropist. Noma Ratner Copley (1916-2006) was a fine art jewelry designer and art collector. She was introduced to William Copley by their mutual friend Man Ray in 1951. They married in 1953 and resided in France until 1962, when they moved to New York. In 1954, they began the William and Noma Copley Foundation (renamed the Cassandra Foundation in 1966), which was incorporated in Chicago as a nonprofit organizat...

Cage, John, 1912-1992

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John Cage was born in Los Angeles in 1912. He studied composition with Richard Buhlig, Henry Cowell, Adolph Weiss, and Arnold Schoenberg. In 1938 he began working as an accompanist for dance and a teacher at the Cornish School of the Arts in Seattle, Washington. It was here that he first met the dancer Merce Cunningham, with whom he would have a lifelong working relationship. Together they were responsible for a number of radical innovations in musical and choreographic compositions, such as the...

Hérold, Jacques, 1910-

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Tanguy, Yves, 1900-1955

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The French Surealist painter Yves Tanguy, a naturalized American in 1848, was a close friend of the American Dadaist and Surrealist artist Man Ray. From the description of Letter to Man Ray, n.d. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79598511 ...

Petlin, Irving, 1934-

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Tajiri, Shinkichi, 1923-

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William Nelson Copley

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Roth, Dieter, 1930-

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Man Ray, 1890-1976

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Photographer. Halpert was director of the Downtown Gallery, New York, N.Y. and a friend of director of museum director, James W. Foster. From the description of Photograph of Edith Halpert, [ca. 1930]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 744432180 From the description of Photograph of Edith Halpert, [ca. 1930]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122455038 Biographical/Historical Note American-born photographer, painter, a...

Chryssa, 1933-2013

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Sculptor; New York, N.Y. Full name Vardea Chryssa. From the description of Chryssa interview, 1967 June 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220185193 Sculptor; New York, N.Y. Full name Vardea Chryssa. From the description of [Vardea] Chryssa lecture, 1968 Jan. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86118690 Sculptor; New York, N.Y. Full name Vardea Chryssa. From the descrip...

Delvaux, Paul.

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Westermann, H. C. (Horace Clifford), 1922-

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Sculptor; Brookfield, Conn.; d. 1981. From the description of H.C.(Horace Clifford) Westermann papers, [ca. 1925]-1982. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80813118 American artist. From the description of Autograph note signed : [n.p.], to "Allan" [Allan Frumkin], 1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872497 From the description of Autograph note signed : [n.p.], to "Allan" [Allan Frumkin], 1973 Oct. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872495 Fr...