Scribner's The Last Quarter-Century in America
Medium
Commercial relief process
Dimensions
Sheet: 24 1/8 in. × 14 in. (61.3 × 35.5 cm) Image: 22 × 11 in. (55.9 × 27.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, The Lauder Foundation, Evelyn H. and Leonard A. Lauder Fund Gift, 1989
Accession Number
1989.1032.2
About the Artist
Kenyon Cox|Charles Scribners and Sons · 1856–1919
Kenyon Cox (1856–1919) was born on October 27 in Warren, Ohio, to General Jacob Dolson Cox, a prominent politician and Civil War veteran, and Helen Finney Cox. Despite fragile health, young Cox pursued art at the Art Academy of Cincinnati before advancing to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. In 1877, he traveled to Paris, studying first under Carolus-Duran, then at the Éco...