Born in Warren, Ohio in 1856, Kenyon Cox was considered one of the finest draftsmen of his day. He did easel paintings, portraits, and illustrations for books and magazines, but it was for mural... Read full biography
Born in Warren, Ohio in 1856, Kenyon Cox was considered one of the finest draftsmen of his day. He did easel paintings, portraits, and illustrations for books and magazines, but it was for mural paintings that he became best known. The murals, classically inspired, simple in composition and muted... Read full biography
Born in Warren, Ohio in 1856, Kenyon Cox was considered one of the finest draftsmen of his day. He did easel paintings, portraits, and illustrations for books and magazines, but it was for mural paintings that he became best known. The murals, classically inspired, simple in composition and muted in color, were commissioned for public and collegiate buildings in many parts of the country. His mural installations, many of them done in his studio in Cornish, New Hampshire, include venues at the... Read full biography
Born in Warren, Ohio in 1856, Kenyon Cox was considered one of the finest draftsmen of his day. He did easel paintings, portraits, and illustrations for books and magazines, but it was for mural paintings that he became best known. The murals, classically inspired, simple in composition and muted in color, were commissioned for public and collegiate buildings in many parts of the country. His mural installations, many of them done in his studio in Cornish, New Hampshire, include venues at the Library of Congress, the Appellate Court House in New York City, and the Essex County Court House in Newark, New Jersey for which he used actress Ethel Barrymore as a model. Cox, a proponent of Classical Realism*, is also remembered for his scathing... Read full biography
Born in Warren, Ohio in 1856, Kenyon Cox was considered one of the finest draftsmen of his day. He did easel paintings, portraits, and illustrations for books and magazines, but it was for mural paintings that he became best known. The murals, classically inspired, simple in composition and muted in color, were commissioned for public and collegiate buildings in many parts of the country. His mural installations, many of them done in his studio in Cornish, New Hampshire, include venues at the Library of Congress, the Appellate Court House in New York City, and the Essex County Court House in Newark, New Jersey for which he used actress Ethel Barrymore as a model. Cox, a proponent of Classical Realism*, is also remembered for his scathing written attacks on the New York Armory Show* of 1913, with its introduction of modernist* art to America. He... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (114)
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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
Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925
2004
Dearinger, David B.
672 pages (color)
Cornish Art of the Past Century: Art for Art's Sake
2001
Gilbert-Smith, Alma
24 pages (color)
The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000 The Society of Illustrators
2001
Reed, Walt
452 pages (color)
A Place of Beauty: The Artists and Gardens of the Cornish Colony (Exhibition catalog)
2000
Gilbert, Alma; Judith Tankard
24 pages (color)
American Indian Portraits Elbridge Ayer Burbank in the West (1897-1910)
2000
Wolfe, M Melissa
88 pages (color)
Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999
Editor, Smith College Museum
307 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Carl W Peters: American Scene Painter from Rochester
1999
Love, Richard H
927 pages (color)
The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
0 pages
Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings
1998
Calo, Mary Ann
328 pages
The Cornish Colony: One Hundred Year Celebration Exhibit (Exhibition catalog)
1998
Gilbert, Alma; James Atkinson
52 pages
American Visions The Epic History of Art in America
1997
Hughes, Robert
635 pages (color)
Footprints of the Past: Images of Cornish, New Hampshire
1996
Colby, Virginia Reed; James B. Atkinson
526 pages
Art and the Higher Life Painting and Evolutionary Thought*
1996
Pyne, Kathleen
416 pages (color)
American Art Colonies 1850-1930 A Guide to Original Art Colonies and Their Artists
1996
Shipp, Steve
159 pages
Angels of Art Women and Art in American Society 1876-1914
1996
Van Hook, Bailey
287 pages
Artist of the American Renaissance
1995
Cox, Kenyon
0 pages
American Art History and Culture
1994
Craven, Wayne
687 pages (color)
Picturing History: American Painting, 1770-1930 (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Ayers, William S
256 pages (color)
Revisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Carr, Carolyn K
408 pages (color)
The "New Woman" Revised Painting and Gender Politics on 14th Street
1993
Todd, Ellen Wiley
414 pages (color)
American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Adams, Henry (others)
495 pages (color)
Italian Presence in American Art 1860-1920
1992
Jaffe, Irma B
265 pages (color)
The Lure of Paris: Nineteenth-Century American Painters and Their French Teachers
1991
Weinberg, H Barbara
295 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons
1990
Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface
430 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Venice/The Artist's Vision Guide to British and American Painters
1990
Halsby, Julian
223 pages (color)
Americans and Paris (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Marlais, Michael Andrew
62 pages (color)
American and European Paintings (Schwarz Galleries, Philadelphia) (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Robert Schwarz
32 pages (color)
Paris 1889 American Artists at the Universal Exposition (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Blaugrund, Annette
304 pages (color)
Faces and Figures in American Drawings (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Bloch, E Maurice
99 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
An American Collection Paintings and Sculpture from the NAD (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Gerdts, Abigail Booth
208 pages (color)
Wake Up, America World War I and the American Poster
1988
Rawls, Walton
288 pages (color)
The Boston Painters 1900-1930
1986
Gammell, R H Ives
204 pages (color)
An American Art Student in Paris The Letters of Kenyon Cox
1986
Morgan, H Wayne
224 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
American Drawings and Watercolors In The Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Adams, Henry; John Caldwell, John Lane et all
314 pages (color)
Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985
Dawdy, Doris
1,184 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Arts of the American Renaissance (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
123 pages (color)
Treasures from the National Museu of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Kloss, William/C C Eldredge
254 pages (color)
A Circle of Friends Art Colonies of Cornish and Dublin (Exhibition catalog)
1985
New Hampshire, U of
138 pages (color)
Twentieth Century American Drawin The Figure in Context (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Cummings, Paul
144 pages
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
656 pages
The American Pupils of Jean-Leon Gerome
1984
Weinberg, H Barbara
113 pages
The Quest for Unity American Art between World's Fairs 1876-1893 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Detroit Institute of the Arts
272 pages (color)
The Artist's Studio In American Painting 1840-1983 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Gregg, Richard N
64 pages
Artists by Themselves Artist's Portrait's from the National Academy of Design (Exhibition catalog)
1983
National Academy of Design
175 pages (color)
The Immortal Eight & Its Influenc (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Perlman, Bennard B
108 pages
Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940)
1982
Soria, Regina
332 pages
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 3, Artists Born Between1846-64
1980
Burke, Doreen Bolger
479 pages
American Realism and the Industrial Age (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Doezema, Marianne
147 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
1979
Brooklyn Museum
133 pages (color)
American Drawings: Paul Magriel Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Eisler, Colin
38 pages
The Immortal Eight American Painting from Eakins to the Armory Show
1979
Perlman, Bennard B
224 pages (color)
The Golden Age: Cincinnati Painters of the Nineteenth Century Represented in the Cincinnati Art Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Rogers, Millard F Jr.; Denny Carter, Bruce Weber
218 pages (color)
The Fine Arts in America
1979
Taylor, Joshua C
264 pages
Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art
1978
Fink, Lois Marie
62 pages (color)
The New Muses Art in American Culture 1865-1920
1978
Morgan, H Wayne
232 pages (color)
American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
1977
Brown, Milton W
631 pages (color)
Turn-of-the-Century America Paintings, Graphics, Photographs 1890-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Hills, Patricia
194 pages (color)
American Art at Amherst: A Summary Catalogue of the Collection At the Mead Art Gallery Amherst College (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Shepard, Lewis A; David Paley, Frank Trapp
252 pages (color)
Book of American Figure Painters (Art Experience, Late 19th Cen/ no. 11)
1977
Weinberg, H Barbara (intro)
240 pages
Robert P Coggins Collection of American Art/Selections from (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Chambers, Bruce W
93 pages (color)
Painting and Sculpture in Minnesota 1820-1914
1976
Coen, Rena Neumann
146 pages (color)
Art in the United States Capitol
1976
Editor for Architect of the Capitol
0 pages (color)
American Drawings In the Art Museum, Princeton University
1976
Ross, Barbara T
132 pages
Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Fink, Lois M/Joshua Taylor
272 pages
American Painting and Sculpture: Delaware Art Museum
1975
Hawkes, Elizabeth H (Curator and Essay)
182 pages (color)
Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set) (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Naylor, Maria
1,075 pages
American Drawings and Watercolors
1973
University of Kansas Museum
80 pages
Biographical Sketches of American Artists
1972
Earle, Helen L
370 pages
The Armory Show International Exhibition of Art 1913 (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Karpel, Bernard/Walt Kuhn
286 pages
Estimates in Art 16 Essays on American Painters/in 19th Century
1970
Mather, Frank Jewett Jr
337 pages
Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc)
1970
Myers, Bernard S (editor)
511 pages (color)
Highlights from the Collections Georgia Museum of Art
1968
Georgia Museum of Art
36 pages
Traveler's Guide to American Art
1968
Norman, Jane & Theodore
436 pages
Readings in American Art Since 1900 A Documentary Survey
1968
Rose, Barbara
270 pages
American Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
1966
Los Angeles County Museum
143 pages (color)
Limners and Likenesses
1965
Burroughs, Alan
246 pages
American Drawings: Drawings of the Masters
1965
Hayes, Bartlett H Jr
141 pages (color)
Encyclopedia of Painting
1955
Myers, Bernard
511 pages (color)
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
Painting & Sculpture by 75 Artist Associated with The Art Students League (Exhibition catalog)
1951
Metropolitan Museum of Art
170 pages
100 American Painters of the 20th Century
1950
Metropolitan Museum
132 pages (color)
Survey of American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1940
Carnegie Institute
320 pages
Life in America Exhibition Paintings/New York World's Fair (Exhibition catalog)
1939
Metropolitan Museum of Art
230 pages
The Story of American Painting The Evolution of Painting in America
1937
Caffin, Charles H
396 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One
1932
Hartmann, Sadekichi
363 pages
A Critical Introduction to American Painting
1931
Barker, Virgil
52 pages
The History and Ideals of American Art
1931
Neuhaus, Eugen
444 pages
Art and Artists of the Capitol of the United States of America
1927
Fairman, Charles E
0 pages
The History of American Painting (supplemental chapters by Royal Cortissoz)