Kenyon Cox

In this composition, artist Kenyon Cox presents a figure symbolizing Tradition in the center of his canvas. She guards the lighted lamp of knowledge, transporting it from a representative of the past seated on the left, to latter-day personifications of poetry and painting standing on the right.

Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-October 4, 1937).

Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today

Paintings by Ohio Artists. Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH (organizer) (November 28, 1967-January 14, 1968).

Paintings by Ohio Artists

Cleveland Collects American Art of the Gilded Age. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 23-May 18, 2003).

Cleveland Collects American Art of the Gilded Age

Youngstown, OH, The Butler Art Institute, March 20 - April 12, 1942: "Ohio Artists of the Past," cat. no. 16

New York, The Art Student's League, March 15 - May 13, 1951: "Diamond Jubilee Anniversary Exhibition," cat. no. 12

Akron, OH, The Akron Art Institute, 1967-1968: "Paintings by Ohio Artists."

Washington, D. C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, 1975: "150th Anniversary of The National Academy of Design," cat. no. 98, p. 203, repr. p. 202.

A horizontally oriented oil painting depicts four women and three children, all with light skin tones. Left, a seated woman in red robes holds a lit torch near columns and two winged children. Centrally, a woman in a green gown and brown cloak carries an oil lamp toward two women. Right, one woman holds a palette while a child clings to the other. A stone balustrade overlooks green hills under a cloudy sky.

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