Study for Ceiling Decoration
Kenyon Cox
ca. 1894 · Graphite on off-white laid paper for transfer · The American Wing
Cox, who painted landscapes, portraits, and figure studies and worked as an art critic and teacher, was best known as a muralist. He created this preparatory study for a ceiling of an unidentified private apartment. Committed to the academic teachings of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Cox completed this rigorous study of a single nude female figure, using a grid system to ensure that the composition was properly proportioned. This sketch does not correspond to any of Cox’s specific commissioned murals, and it is not dated.
- Artist
- Kenyon Cox
- Date
- ca. 1894
- Medium
- Graphite on off-white laid paper for transfer
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Gift of William Rothenstein, 1912
