Plenty

Kenyon Cox, Plenty, 1910, oil on canvas, 28 ⁵⁄₈ x 35 ³⁄₈ in. (72.6 x 89.8 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of William T. Evans, 1910.9.6

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Artwork Details

Title: Plenty
Artist: Kenyon Cox
Date: 1910
Location: Not on view
Dimensions: 28 ⁵⁄₈ x 35 ³⁄₈ in. (72.6 x 89.8 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of William T. Evans
Mediums: oil
Mediums Description: oil on canvas
Classifications: Painting
Subjects: Landscape
Figure group — female and child — nude
Allegory — quality — wealth
Occupation — domestic — gathering
Object — fruit
Object Number: 1910.9.6
Linked Open Data: https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1910.9.6

Artwork Description

This is Kenyon Cox's copy of a small figural group from his mural for the Essex County Courthouse in Newark, New Jersey. Cox replicated a group symbolizing the prosperity that comes from justice. The child picking flowers represents Poetry and Art. After he completed the copy, he wrote to his patron, "It is not an exact replica of the original . . . I went back to the original studies and used them with a certain freedom, and I think the result, in many ways, finer than the first group."