Cox, Kenyon

Cox, Kenyon

(1856–1919) painter, art critic; born in Warren, Ohio. An academic painter, he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1876), and with Gérôme in Paris (1878–82), before returning to New York City. He painted Augustus St. Gaudens, the famous sculptor, in 1908. His art criticism, such as Painters and Sculptors (1907), was widely read.

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