William N. Copley was an American artist known for his erotic and humorous paintings of faceless figures. Also a collector, writer, and gallerist, his space Copley Galleries exhibited Surrealist works by René Magritte, Marcel Duchamp, and Max Ernst in postwar Los Angeles. “I thought that by painting I could sharpen my visual perception and be able to transmit that into my writing,” he once explained. “And once I got started painting I never returned to writing really except for a brief period of journalism.” Born on January 24, 1919 in New York, NY, he was adopted by Ira C. Copley in 1921 and grew up in Aurora, IL. The artist went on to study at Phillips Academy Andover and Yale University before being drafted...