The following information is from material developed for Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis by Tom Davis:. Jacob Cox lived the history of art in Indianapolis for its first fifty years. He arrived to... Read full biography
The following information is from material developed for Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis by Tom Davis:. Jacob Cox lived the history of art in Indianapolis for its first fifty years. He arrived to a backwoods town with stumps still standing in all but the most traveled streets, and these streets... Read full biography
The following information is from material developed for Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis by Tom Davis:. Jacob Cox lived the history of art in Indianapolis for its first fifty years. He arrived to a backwoods town with stumps still standing in all but the most traveled streets, and these streets were knee deep in mud after every rain. By the time he died sixty years later trolleys ran down the streets, casting shadows from the street lights which lined the thoroughfares. Cox had been born in... Read full biography
The following information is from material developed for Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis by Tom Davis:. Jacob Cox lived the history of art in Indianapolis for its first fifty years. He arrived to a backwoods town with stumps still standing in all but the most traveled streets, and these streets were knee deep in mud after every rain. By the time he died sixty years later trolleys ran down the streets, casting shadows from the street lights which lined the thoroughfares. Cox had been born in Burlington, New Jersey, the first of ten children born to a Quaker couple. His parents died in separate ferry accidents in Delaware, his mother when he was eight, his father two years later, and he was raised primarily by his grandfather and an aunt... Read full biography
The following information is from material developed for Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis by Tom Davis:. Jacob Cox lived the history of art in Indianapolis for its first fifty years. He arrived to a backwoods town with stumps still standing in all but the most traveled streets, and these streets were knee deep in mud after every rain. By the time he died sixty years later trolleys ran down the streets, casting shadows from the street lights which lined the thoroughfares. Cox had been born in Burlington, New Jersey, the first of ten children born to a Quaker couple. His parents died in separate ferry accidents in Delaware, his mother when he was eight, his father two years later, and he was raised primarily by his grandfather and an aunt in Washington, Pennsylvania. He was already interested in art and did charcoal sketches on whatever available canvas he could find, usual... Read full biography
Jacob Cox - Artist Info
About Jacob Cox: Books
Books & Publications (13)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
A Grand Tradition: The Art and Artists of the Hoosier Salon, 1925-1990
1993
Newton, Judith/Carol Weiss
479 pages
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Catalogue of American Painting
1981
San Diego Museum of Art
240 pages (color)
Portraits and Painters of the Governors of Indiana 1800-1978
1978
Peat, Wilbur D
104 pages (color)
Mirages of Memory (Vol 1) 200 Years of Indiana Art (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Indianapolis Museum of Art
142 pages (color)
The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976
Samuels, Peggy and Harold
549 pages
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957
Groce, George; David Wallace
759 pages
Pioneer Painters of Indiana
1954
Peat, Wilbur D
254 pages
American Painting History and Interpretation
1950
Barker, Virgil
715 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index