30 Facts About Kenyon Cox

Kenyon Cox was an American painter, illustrator, muralist, writer, and teacher.

Kenyon Cox was the designer of the League's logo, whose motto is Nulla Dies Sine Linea or No Day Without a Line.

Kenyon Cox enrolled in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts hoping to receive better instruction and eventually secure for himself a way to study in Europe.

In 1877 Kenyon Cox moved to Paris like many American artists of the day to be a part of what he believed to be a sort of second renaissance in art.

Kenyon Cox's painting teachers at the school included Alexandre Cabanel and Jean-Leon Gerome.

In 1882 Kenyon Cox left Paris and moved to New York where he continued to paint.

Kenyon Cox began to do many illustrations, mostly to pay the bills.

Kenyon Cox's illustrations reached a much wider audience than did his paintings.

Kenyon Cox began to write art criticisms for the New York Evening Post.

Kenyon Cox continued to live and work in New York for most of his life.

Kenyon Cox became an influential and important teacher at the Art Students League of New York.

Kenyon Cox designed the League's logo that reads Nulla Dies Sine Linea or No Day Without a Line.

Kenyon Cox was one of the founders and the secretary of the National Free Arts League, and was a member of the Society of American Artists, the National Academy of Design, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters and served as president of the National Society of Mural Painters from 1915 to 1919.

Kenyon Cox belongs eminently to the traditions of my student days.

Kenyon Cox's art was very different from the cubist, neo-impressionist, fauvist, expressionist and modernist styles that emerged during his lifetime.

Kenyon Cox advocated careful drawing and modulated color, and he frequently used allegory and symbolism to present his ideas.

Kenyon Cox painted in the realistic manner and earned a reputation for landscapes, portraits and genre studies.

Later, in 1912, Kenyon Cox wrote an article for The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin called "Two Ways of Painting".

Kenyon Cox wrote extensively to persuade the art world and the public to ebrace traditional, representational art.

Kenyon Cox began to focus more on mural painting after the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

Kenyon Cox painted murals in the state capitol buildings of Des Moines, St Paul and Madison as well as other courthouses, libraries and college buildings.

In 1910 Kenyon Cox was awarded the Medal of Honor for mural painting by the Architectural League.

Kenyon Cox served as president of the National Society of Mural Painters from 1915 to 1919.

Kenyon Cox began to write more articles and became an art critic for numerous magazines in New York including The Nation, Century and Scribner's.

In 1895 Kenyon Cox published another poem, "The Gospel of Art", that summarized his idealism about the artist's role in the intensifying emotion through sacrifice, and on the function of art in culture:.

In 1904 Kenyon Cox wrote the book Mixed Beasts where he combined the names of different beasts he believed flowed together to form another name like Bumblebeaver or Kangarooster.

Kenyon Cox then made up short poems to go with each new beast.

On June 30,1892, thirty-six-year-old Kenyon Cox married twenty-seven-year-old Louise Howland King.

Kenyon Cox continued to paint, teach and write until his death on March 17,1919.

Kenyon Cox died in his New York home from pneumonia.