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Kenyon Cox
Born:
Warren, Ohio
1856
Died:
New York, New York
1919
Active in:
- Windsor, Vermont
Photo Caption:
Kenyon Cox, Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum J0001409.
Photo Caption:
Kenyon Cox, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Allyn Cox 1983.31.1.
Biography
Born in Ohio, studied in Paris, lived mostly in New York City. Painter who wrote extensively about art. His sensuous female nudes were beautifully rendered but were somewhat shocking to the public of his day; later he found wider acceptance as a creator of allegorical murals.
Charles Sullivan, ed American Beauties: Women in Art and Literature (New York: Henry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with National Museum of American Art, 1993)
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