Artist

Kenyon Cox

born Warren, OH 1856-died New York City 1919
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Kenyon Cox, © Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum J0001409
Born
Warren, Ohio, United States
Died
New York, New York, United States
Active in
  • Windsor, Vermont, United States
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)

Works by this artist (2 items)

Radcliffe Bailey, Up From, 2015, canvas tarpaulin, velvet, Georgia clay, wood, rock, metal, thread, rum, and tobacco, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2024.23.1A-D, © Radcliffe Bailey. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
Up From
Artist
Date2015
canvas tarpaulin, velvet, Georgia clay, wood, rock, metal, thread, rum, and tobacco
On view
Radcliffe Bailey, Untitled, 2022, mixed media including flock, oil stick, acrylic paint on tarp, with steel railroad tracks, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2024.23.2A-B, © Radcliffe Bailey. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
Untitled
Artist
Date2022
mixed media including flock, oil stick, acrylic paint on tarp, with steel railroad tracks
Not on view

Exhibitions

An artwork image of a woman
Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano 
October 8, 2021–May 8, 2022
Smithsonian American Art Museum
This exhibition brings to life the Venetian glass revival of the nineteenth century on the famed island of Murano and the artistic experimentation the city inspired for artists such as John Singer Sargent and James McNeill Whistler.