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...painting is considered to be the best Tiepolo in the U.S., but it is not the only great new public acquisition. The National Gallery in Washington. D.C., recently bought The Copley Family, which it put on display at the time of the visit of France's Minister of Culture André Malraux, and boasts that it is "the most important group portrait by an American artist...
Tenderness of Mood. The Copley Family presented the National Gallery with no such difficulty, but the painting has a drama of its own. Though painted in 1776, it is associated with American independence only negatively. When the revolutionary clouds began to gather, Mrs. Copley quit Boston with her children and her loyalist family and sailed for London. There, her husband, who had been painting in Italy, joined her. He had not seen his family for more than a year, and the group portrait was done to celebrate the reunion. Copley's style had lost its stiffness in Italy...
Stare said Pearmain "used to sell the seaweed" in the Copley square diet Shop, which was headquarters for the Society until the store closed last year...
...answer read: "These scare tactics are typical of the food-faddist organizations. The name 'Boston Nutrition Society' sounds good, but if you were to telephone them, you would discover, as we did, that the phone number is the same as for the Copley Square Diet Shop. Surveyors of so-called 'health foods...
...ATLAS: a sort of highbrow Reader's Digest with reprints, excerpts and translations from the foreign press, launched last March by Eleanor Davidson Worley, stepdaughter of the late publisher of Illinois and California newspapers, Ira C. Copley, with ABC Newsman Quincy Howe as co-editor...