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Revision as of 00:18, 6 October 2007

Alfred L. Copley (19101992) was a German-American medical scientist[1] and an artist at the New York School[2] in the 1950's. As an artist he worked under the name L. Alcopley. He is best known as an artist for his abstract expressionist paintings, and as a scientist for his work in the field of hemorheology. He was married to the Icelandic artist Nína Tryggvadóttir.

Work as a medical scientist

As a scientist, Copley studied the rheology of blood. In 1952 he introduced the word hemorheology, to describe the study of the way blood and blood vessels function as part of the living organism.[3] In 1972 he was awarded the Poiseuille gold medal of the international society of biorheology.[4]

Work as an artist

In 1949 he was one of twenty artists who founded the Eighth Street Artists' Club. The group also included Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning and Alcopley's close friend, the composer Edgard Varèse.[5]

He participated in the Ninth Street Show in 1952 and had a solo exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam in 1962.[6] His work is held in the collection of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.[7]

Reference

  1. ^ Magda Salvesen and Diane Cousineaup, Artists' Estates: Reputations in Trust, Rutgers University Press, 2005, 356. ISBN 0813536049
  2. ^ Art in America, February, 1994.
  3. ^ J. F. Stoltz, Megha Singh, Pavel Riha, Hemorheology in Practice, IOS Press, 1999, p2. ISBN 9051994354
  4. ^ coe.ou.edu, accessed September 23, 2007.
  5. ^ Steven Johnson, The New York Schools of Music and Visual Arts, Routledge, 2002, p60. ISBN 0815333641
  6. ^ artnet.com, accessed September 22, 2007.
  7. ^ artfacts.net, accessed September 22, 2007.

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