KENYON

See also:

• COX, DAVID (1783-1859)
• COX, JACOB DOLSON (1828-1900)
• KENYON COX (1856– )
• COX, RICHARD (I3oo ?–1581)
• COX, SAMUEL (1826–1893)
• COX, SAMUEL HANSON (1793-1880)
• COX, SIR GEORGE WILLIAM (1827-1902)

COX (1856– )  , American painter, was born at Warren, Ohio, on the 27th of October 1856, being the son of Gen . Jacob Dolson Cox . He was a pupil of Carolus-Duran and of J . L . Gerbme in Paris from 1877 to 1882, when he opened a studio in New York, subsequently teaching with much success in the Art Students' League . His earlier work was mainly of the nude drawn with great academic correctness in somewhat conventional colour . 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 Gallery, 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 .