Kenyon Cox Paintings Illustrations

Kenyon Cox (October 27, 1856 March 17, 1919) was an American painter, illustrator, muralist, writer, and teacher. Cox was an influential and important early instructor at the Art Students League of New York. He was the designer of the League s logo, whose motto is Nulla Dies Sine Linea or No Day Without a Line. In 1877 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. There he studied under CarolusDuran and JeanLéon Gérôme and then under Alexandre Cabanel at the École des BeauxArts. Cox wrote of his initial impression of Paris saying that there was so much artistic material here that one might almost be content to stay here and paint for yearsOne cant dive down a crooked street or turn a sharp corner without finding more to paint than he could by hunting months for a subject in America. If Paris is at all like this it must indeed be a paradise for Cox first studied unde