Kenyon Cox, The Silver Hand Glass
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Joan Armstrong Schmidt · Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Open Access (CC0)View original →
Kenyon Cox

The Silver Hand Glass

1907

Current Collection

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C., United States

Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
61.2 × 50.8 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-131037

In 1891 a group of women protested several of Kenyon Cox's nude studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts annual show. Cox advocated the nude as an artistic subject but was often criticized because his nudes looked too familiar. For example, in this image the woman gazes into a nineteenth-century silver mirror, wears a fashionable pompadour hairstyle, and sits in a turn-of-the-century …

Provenance

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Joan Armstrong Schmidt

Registry history

  • 1907 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum

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