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...Gallows Island (Bermuda)-also went for $65,000. And the price of every sort of "Americana" -that tract of once largely ignored painting, sculpture and craft that stretches from colonial America to the 20th century-is inexorably spiraling: it affects every type of object from embroidered samplers to John Singleton Copleys, from decoy ducks and Windsor chairs to Hudson River School landscapes, and especially for fine antique furniture (a Goddard-Townsend kneehole desk that fetched $12,000 in 1957 recently sold for $120,000). The scramble for Americana is on. But only in America; there are no transatlantic clients...
...should the viewer think only in terms of the Met's great collection: Boston's own collection is not inferior to the Met's loan. In fact, probably the greatest early American paintings belong to the MFA: John Singleton Copley's portraits and Gilbert Stuart's Martha and George Washington have few equals (not to mention Boston's John Singer Sargent canvasses). If Van Der Weyden's Christ Appearing to His Mother makes the viewer sigh, he should take a look at home- Van Der Weyden's Saint Luke Painting the Virgin, in Boston's permanent collection...
...corpulent cutie, the label on a bottle of liquor, the barroom floor, all bore the enigmatic letters: CPLY. It is the maddeningly unpronounceable nom de plume of William Nelson Copley, a Manhattan artist-collector-philanthropist who says he slipped the vowels from his name out of deference to John Singleton Copley, the 19th century American painter...
...First Amendment freedoms. The Houston Peace Coalition won a similar court victory over city officials who discouraged political parades in the downtown area while granting permits to a University of Houston golfers' march and a St. Patrick's Day parade. Ruled U.S. District Judge John V. Singleton Jr.: "The city cannot put the golf team and St. Patrick's on Main Street and war protesters on some side street...
Those planning the new programs share the students' concern for learning that has practical application. Robert Singleton, 33, a black associate professor of economics, hopes to have U.C.L.A.'s planned Afro-American Studies Center in operation next fall as a complement to the university's intellectually distinguished ten-year-old Center for African Studies. Singleton sees the new center as "an evolutionary laboratory in which to design alternatives to current social institutions, a base from which to test these alternatives in nearby communities and a classroom in which to convert field findings into new courses back...