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...first really significant American portraitist, John Singleton Copley (1738-1815), appealed to these values. The hard, uningratiating realism of his portraits of Boston's notables--not just the prosperous Tories but dissenters like Samuel Adams and Paul Revere--was more like some French neoclassical painting than like English portraiture of the time. His clients liked Copley in part because everything in his work, from a nailhead in a chair to the exact gleam on red mahogany, was earnestly weighed and measured. In his candor and curiosity, he refused to edit out the warts and wens, the pinched New England lips...
...formal gardens and pavilions behind that are complete fictions. No properties in America looked like this. Kuhn was meeting the illusory desire of Colonial gentry to seem like important extensions of European culture. It would be a recurrent fantasy. Fifty years later, in Boston, one sees John Singleton Copley doing much the same in some of his portraits. But in another hundred years, with the growth of American wealth, grandeur began to get real...
...Harvard was hitting it where we weren't," MIT coach Mac Singleton said. "They scattered them anywhere and everywhere they wanted...
...John Singleton, director, most recently, of Rosewood...
...frenzy was astonishing in its barbarism. Equally remarkable is the fact that it was banished from history for more than a half-century, until a newspaper reporter stumbled on the story in 1982. Since then there have been television and magazine accounts of this outrage, and now director John Singleton has made a film that is bound to arouse controversy over its approach to this tragedy...