Cox, Kenyon, 1856-1919

Mural painter, illustrator, teacher, and writer; New York, N.Y.

From the description of Kenyon Cox letters, 1893-1919. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122456081

American artist, author.

From the description of Kenyon Cox papers, circa 1860-1922. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 505719883

Kenyon Cox was an American artist, born in Ohio, who studied in Cincinnati, Philadelphia and Paris, 1877-1882. He moved to New York in 1883, was an illustrator for several major magazines and taught and wrote several books on art. In the 1880s he painted several large allegorical works and later painted murals for public buildings.

From the description of Kenyon Cox letter to David A. Munro, 1907 Sept. 28. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 57358503

Kenyon Cox was a prominent American painter, lecturer, and art critic. He was born in 1856, in Warren, Ohio, and he studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and in Paris, where he befriended artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Cox returned to the United States and made a living illustrating magazines and books, and teaching at the Art Students League in New York. In 1892 he married his student Louise Howland King, born in San Francisco in 1865. Together they became prominent painters and were responsible for the murals that decorated the Liberal Arts Building at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. During his career, Cox contributed articles and essays on art subjects to various magazines. He was a member of the Society of American Artists, the National Academy of Design, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Kenyon Cox died in 1919 and Louise in 1945. Their son, Allyn, born in 1896, became a successful muralist.

From the guide to the Kenyon and Louise Cox papers, 1876-1977, (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)

Kenyon Cox (1856-1919) was a mural painter, illustrator, teacher, and art critic from New York, N.Y.

From the description of Kenyon and Louise Cox papers, 1876-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80157850