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ICA Miami presents paintings created by American artist William N. Copley from 1956 to 1958.

An autodidact, William N. Copley (b. 1919, New York; d. 1996 Key West, Florida) came to painting following and alongside his famed work as a gallerist and collector of Surrealist works. A crucial connecting figure between Surrealism and Pop art, Copley developed a unique style and iconography that made use of cartoonlike motifs––reduced, simple figures depicted with thick black brushstrokes and flat coloring, most often men in bowler hats and female nudes––to critically and humorously explore topics …