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KENYON COX (1856– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 353 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KENYON See also:COX (1856– )  , See also:American painter, was See also:born at See also:Warren, See also:Ohio, on the 27th of See also:October 1856, being the son of Gen . See also:Jacob Dolson See also:Cox . He was a See also:pupil of Carolus-See also:Duran and of J . L . Gerbme in See also:Paris from 1877 to 1882, when he opened a studio in New See also:York, subsequently teaching with much success in the See also:Art Students' See also:League . His earlier See also:work was mainly of the nude See also:drawn with See also:great See also:academic correctness in somewhat conventional See also: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 See also:frieze for the See also:court See also:room of the Appellate Court, New York, and decorations for the See also:Walker Art See also:Gallery, See also:Bowdoin See also:College; for the Capitol at See also:Saint See also:Paul, See also:Minnesota, and for other public and private buildings . He wrote with much authority on art topics, and is the author of the See also:critical reviews, Old Masters and New (1905) and Painters and Sculptors (1907), besides some poems . He became a See also:National Academician in 1903 . His wife, nee See also:Louise H . See also:King (b .

1865), whom he married in 1892, also became a figure and portrait-painter of See also:

note .

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