Book of Pictures
1910-1917
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 76 × 91.5 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-135097
Kenyon Cox was as much an art critic as a painter. He contributed articles to prestigious magazines such as The Nation and Scribner’s, and much of his writing dealt with the power of art to speak a universal language. His Raphael-inspired Book of Pictures, of a mother showing her child an illustrated book, represents this conviction. In the early years of the twentieth century, many Americans lea…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Allyn Cox
Registry history
- 1910-1917 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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