Book+of+Pictures

Date: 1910-1917
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1959/1959.10.2_1a.jpg?itok=t-Nk8jft width="315" height="260" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/book-of-pictures-5847"]] || Title: **Book of Pictures**

Artist: **Kenyon Cox** Born: Warren, Ohio 1856 Died: New York, New York 1919

Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 29 7/8 x 36 in. (76.0 x 91.5 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Allyn Cox

Accession: 1959.10.2 || 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 learned about European art through mass-produced images in books and magazines. Cox advocated using such means to encourage lessons of good taste that would extend into all aspects of American life. (Morgan, Kenyon Cox, 1856-1919: A Life in American Art, 1994)
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Kenyon Cox Biography
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