Copley (January 24, 1919 – May 7, 1996) also known as CPLY, was an American painter, writer, gallerist, collector, patron, publisher and art entrepreneur.
His works as an artist have been classified as late Surrealist and precursory to Pop Art.
Italian photographer In 2008 his works have been bought by BEIC - Biblioteca Europea d'Informazione e Cultura (European Library for Information and Culture) of Milan. The whole amount of Paolo Monti's works consists of more than 220,000 photographic negatives, 12,000+ prints and 790 chemigrams that describe the story, society and culture of Italy from 1943 to 1982.