Untitled (Seated Draped Female Figure, Profile)

Art Historical Context

Louise Cox (1865–1945), a pioneering American artist active during a time when women were breaking into professional art circles, created this untitled drawing around 1903. Trained in the rigorous academic tradition at institutions like the Art Students League of New York, Cox specialized in figure studies, portraits, and illustrations. This work, now housed in the Smithsonian American Art Museum through the bequest of her son Allyn Cox, exemplifies her skill in capturing the human form with sensitivity and precision. The drawing depicts a seated female figure in profile, elegantly draped in ...