Study for "Science Instructing Industry"
1898
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 40.7 × 50.8 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-136543
In the late nineteenth century, artists decorated America’s public buildings with murals that were meant to teach moral and civic lessons to visitors passing through the halls. Many artists chose mythological or allegorical scenes. In this study, Kenyon Cox represented industry as a muscular young man and science as a laurel-crowned, toga-clad woman. The ruddy skin of the male figure contrasts sh…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Ambrose Lansing
Registry history
- 1898 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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