biografía de Kenyon COX (1856-1919)

Lugar de nacimiento: Warren, OH

Lugar de defunción: NYC/ Windsor, VT?

Direcciones: NYC, from 1882 (returned briefly to Cincinnati in 1883); NYC/Windsor, VT

Profesión: Painter, mural painter, sculptor, illustrator, teacher, writer, lecturer

Estudios: McMicken School Design, Cincinnati, OH, 1870-74; PAFA, 1876; Carolus-Duran, Cabanel, Gérôme, in Paris, 1877-82; Académie Julian, Paris with Lefebvre and Doucet, 1878, 1880

Exposiciones: Paris Salon, 1879-82; PAFA, 1882-1908, 1915, 1917; Brooklyn AA, 1883, 1892; Clossen's Gal., Cincinnati, 1883; Cincinnati Indus. Exhib., 1883; New England Manufacturers and Mechanics Inst., 1884; AIC; NAD, 1884-88,1889 (prize), 1890-97,1910 (medal); Paris Expo, 1889 (medals); PAFA, 1891 (medal); Columbian Expo, Chicago, 1893 (medal); Boston AC, 1895-1909; Loan Exhib. Portraits in Art Gal. Music Hall Benefit, 1896; Cincinnati Art Mus., 1896, 1923, 1942; St. Louis Expo, 1904 (medal); Corcoran Gal, 1908, 1916; New York Arch Lg., 1909 (medal); Buffalo FA Acad., Albright Art Gal., 1905; Columbus Gal. FA, 1953.

Asociaciones: ANA, 1900; NA, 1903; Mural Painters; New York Arch. Lg., 1889; Nat. Inst. AL; AAAL; Fellow, PAFA; ASL; Lotos Club.

Obra: NMAA; CI; NGA; NAD; MMA; Brooklyn Inst. Mus.; RISD; St. Louis AM; Oberlin College; Cincinnati Art Mus.; Bowdoin College. Murals: state capitols at Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin; LOC; Appellate Court, New York; Essex County Court House, Newark, NJ; Luzerne County Court House, Wilkes-Barre, PA; Public Library, Winona, MN; Federal Bldg., Citizens' Bldg., both in Cleveland; Hudson County Court House, Jersey City, NJ

Comentarios: Cox was a leading academician and muralist, and vocal defender of the traditional principals of art, as expressed in his The Classic Point of View (1911). After the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, he gained recognition and prestigious commissions as a muralist, executing large, decorative, allegorical works for the new state capitols at Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin, as well as at the Library of Congress, and other public buildings. He was the son of Maj. Gen. Cox, governor of Ohio and Secretary of the Interior. His son was Allyn Cox (see entry). Author: Mixed Beasts; Old Masters and New (1905); Painters and Sculptors (1907); The Classic Point of View (1911); Artist and Public (1914); Winslow Homer; Concerning Painting (1917).

Fuentes: WW17; Baigell, Dictionary; H. Wayne Morgan, Keepers of Culture: The Art-Thought of Kenyon Cox, Royal Cortissoz, and Frank Jewett Mather, Jr., Kent, Ohio: Kent State Univ. Press, 1989; H. Wayne Morgan Kenyon Cox, 1856-1919: A Life in American Art, Kent, Ohio: Kent State Univ. Press, 1994. Cincinnati Painters of the Golden Age, 40-41 (w/illus.); Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 332

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