Artist of the American Renaissance : The Letters of Kenyon Cox, 1883-1919

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morgan, H. Wayne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cox, Kenyon, -- 1856-1919--Correspondence.

Painters--United States--Correspondence.

Local Subjects:

Cox, Kenyon, -- 1856-1919--Correspondence.

Painters--United States--Correspondence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ashland : Kent State University Press, 2014.

Summary:

Kenyon Cox was born in Warren, Ohio, in 1856 to a nationally prominent family. He studied as an adolescent at the McMicken Art School in Cincinnati and later at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. From 1877 to 1882, he was enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, and then in 1883 he moved to New York city, where he earned his living as an illustrator for magazines and books and showed easel works in exhibitions. He eventually became a leading painter in the classical style particula

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

The Letters

Chapter One: Getting Established, 1883-1889

Chapter Two: Travel, Matrimony, Public Reputation 1887-1900

Chapter Three: Muralisty Traditional Thinker, Critic of Modernism 1900-1919

Afterword

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-61277-959-X