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Kenyon C Cox

Kenyon C. Cox (1856 - 1919) was active/lived in New York, Vermont.  Kenyon Cox is known for Easel and mural painting, illustration, teaching.

Born in Warren, Ohio in 1856, Kenyon Cox was considered one of the finest draftsmen of his day.  He did easel paintings, portraits, and illustrations for books and magazines, but it was for mural paintings that he became best known.  The murals, classically inspired, simple in composition and muted in color, were commissioned for public and collegiate buildings in many parts of the country.  His mural installations, many of them done in his studio in Cornish, New Hampshire, include venues at the Library of Congress, the Appellate Court House in New York City, and the Essex County Court House in Newark, New Jersey for which he used actress Ethel Barrymore as a model.

Cox, a proponent of Classical Realism*, is also remembered for his scathing written attacks on the New York Armory Show* of 1913, with its introduction of modernist* art to America.  He found the work "heartrending and sickening" and Cubism* "nothing else than the total destruction o   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7844 characters.]  Artist bio

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