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 (3 items)

Olaf Skoogfors, Pin, 1966, gold-plated sterling silver with tourmaline, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of M. Lindsay Kaplan and Norman L. Eisen in memory of Jerome E. Kaplan, 2016.49
Pin
Artist
Date1966
gold-plated sterling silver with tourmaline
Not on view
Olaf Skoogfors, Pin/Pendant, 1975, gold-plated sterling silver with ivory, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Helen Williams Drutt and Martin Woldow in memory of Olaf Skoogfors, 1982.93A-B
Pin/​Pendant
Artist
Date1975
gold-plated sterling silver with ivory
Not on view
Olaf Skoogfors, Pin/Pendant, ca. 1969, gold plated sterling silver, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Leona S. and Paul D. Rosenstock, 1996.103, © 1978, Judy Skoogfors
Pin/​Pendant
Artist
Dateca. 1969
gold plated sterling silver
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.