A Lady in Black
1880
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 52.7 × 32.7 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-135646
This is a portrait of the wife of Kenyon Cox’s friend the painter Lowell Dyer. In 1880, Cox exhibited the painting in Philadelphia, and also entered it in a Paris show under the French title Dame en noir. This masterful portrait sketch focuses our eyes on Mrs. Dyer’s spirited expression and tilt of the head. Cox’s fast brushwork gives the lavish hat ribbons tied at her neck the same exuberance as…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Allyn Cox
Registry history
- 1880 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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