Alfred_L._Copley

Alfred L. Copley

Alfred L. Copley

German-American medical scientist and painter

Alfred Lewin Copley (1910–1992) was a German-American medical scientist[1] and an artist at the New York School[2] in the 1950s. 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 1948 he introduced the word biorheology to describe rheology in biological systems.[3] 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.[4] In 1966 he established the International Society of Hemorheology, which changed its name and scope in 1969 to the International Society of Biorheology (ISB).[3] In 1972 the ISB awarded him its Poiseuille gold medal.[5]

Work as an artist

In 1949 he was one of twenty artists who founded the Eighth Street Club. The group also included Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning and Alcopley's close friend, the composer Edgard Varèse.[6]

He participated in the Ninth Street Show in 1951 and had a solo exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam in 1962.[7] His work is held in the collection of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.[8]

See also

  • Biorheology, the study of flow properties(rheology) of biological fluids.
  • Hemorheology, the study of flow properties of blood and its elements .

References

  1. [1]
    Magda Salvesen and Diane Cousineaup, Artists' Estates: Reputations in Trust, Rutgers University Press, 2005, 356. ISBN 0-8135-3604-9
  2. [2]
    Art in America, February, 1994.
  3. [3]
    E. A. O'Rear et al. (2004) Rheology Bulletin Vol. 73, No. 2 "International Society of Biorheology"
  4. [4]
    J. F. Stoltz, Megha Singh, Pavel Riha, Hemorheology in Practice, IOS Press, 1999, p2. ISBN 90-5199-435-4
  5. [5]
    coe.ou.edu, accessed September 23, 2007.
  6. [6]
    Steven Johnson, The New York Schools of Music and Visual Arts, Routledge, 2002, p60. ISBN 0-8153-3364-1
  7. [7]
    artnet.com, accessed September 22, 2007.
  8. [8]
    artfacts.net, accessed September 22, 2007.

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