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Next week, in the Christmas issue, TIME will open another gallery in that American wing with a special eight-page color portfolio of works by American artists, from John Singleton Copley and the painting Peale family (see cut) to Edward Hopper...
...lost the use of one eye in a childhood accident, and second, he was a gentleman. Picturemaking, for the handsome son of the governor of Connecticut, was unthinkable. Accordingly, odd John was packed off to Harvard for polishing. There, however, he called on the greatest of American portraitists, John Singleton Copley, and painted and copied all the pictures he could. He was one of the first male American aristocrats to take brush in hand (Copley came from Boston's waterfront...
...artists trooped through the ornate white marble Palacio de las Bellas Artes to see what a fledgling U.S. collector had put together in a few years. The viewers saw a handsome survey of 57 paintings and six sculptures covering 180 years of U.S. art, from a serene John Singleton Copley portrait, Mrs. Roger Morris, finished in 1772, to first modern works by Watercolorists Charles Burchfield and John Marin, Painters Charles Sheeler, Edward Hopper and Morris Graves...
MOST painters, inspired at first by the work of others, find their way by imitating what they have seen on canvas. A remarkable exception was John Singleton Copley (1738-1815). who found his way by himself. Copley was inspired by simple necessity, and imitated nature instead of art. The astonishing result: he painted better pictures than any American before him, and possibly since. Even more extraordinary is the fact that he painted better pictures than he had ever seen...
Lewis tallied the Crimson singleton in the third period as well as one in the second to lead the varsity attack. Scoring one each with Lewis in the second frame were Dub Mallonee, Smith, and Don Dawidoff...