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...Many publishers allow us reprint rights gratis," says the poormouth letter Atlas sends to publishers abroad. "There is a great appetite here for learning what the foreign press has to say," says Miss Worley, stepdaughter of Copley Press Founder Ira C. Copley. "How many Americans know how brilliant Italian journalism is, for example, or, for that matter, what's being said anywhere? The nicest comment we've had was from a reader who said, 'Atlas takes the surprise, if not the sting out of the headlines.' How often are you flabbergasted to read of some embassy...
Taking off on a grand tour of North American museums, Milliken assured museum directors that their prizes would be safe and laid his request before them: one masterpiece from each. From Washington's National Gallery of Art, he got John Singleton Copley's vibrant portrait of Epes Sargent. From the Nelson Gallery in Kansas City he got Carravaggio's St.John the Baptist: from Toledo, El Greco's The Annunciation: from the National Gallery of Canada, Chardin's La Gouvernante. North Carolina, Connecticut and California sent handsome loans (see color, opposite and overleaf...
...genius should be warped for want of a little cash." The faith of Justice Allen-the New World's first important art patron-was justified; for young Benjamin West did indeed turn out to be extraordinary "in the painting way." He was not only, along with John Singleton Copley, one of America's first two major painters; he was a dominating influence across the Atlantic as well...
...Museum of Fine Arts, on Huntington Avenue, includes a great collection of American art, especially of the Colonial and early Republican period. Portraits by Gilbert Stuart, Copley, and Sargent and landscapes of the Hudson River School are in this great collection. And just off Storrow Drive is the Museum of Science, which combines natural history, science, history, and public health; it also has a planetarium...
...Copley never went back to America: he became a highly successful member of the Royal Academy. Little Susannah, who sits in her grandfather's lap, was to die of scarlet fever at the age of nine. John Singleton Copley Jr., shown embracing his mother, became Lord Chancellor of England. One of his sisters (at right, in the painting) devoted her life to him, dying a spinster at the age of 95. The other, Elizabeth, the determined little figure standing in the center, went back to America. She married a Bostonian, as did her daughter Martha, who, as Mrs. Charles...