Word: singleton
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...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...