Kenyon Cox
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Kenyon Cox (October 27, 1856 – March 17, 1919), American painter, was born at Warren, Ohio, being the son of Gen. Jacob Dolson Cox.
He was a pupil of Carolus-Duran and of Jean-Léon Gérôme in Paris from 1877 to 1882, when he opened a studio in New York, subsequently teaching with much success in the Art Students League of New York.
His earlier work was mainly of the nude drawn with great academic correctness in somewhat conventional color. Receiving little encouragement for such pictures, he turned to mural decorative work,in which he achieved prominence. Among his better-known examples are the frieze for the court room of the Appellate Court, New York, and decorations for the Walker Art Building, Bowdoin College; for the Capitol at Saint Paul, Minnesota, and for other public and private buildings.
He wrote with much authority on art topics, and is the author of the critical reviews, Old Masters and New (1905) and Painters and Sculptors (1907), besides some poems. He became a National Academician in 1903. His wife, nee Louise H. King (b. 1865), whom he married in 1892, also became a figure and portrait-painter of note. His son and protege, Allyn Cox, completed the frieze in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.
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