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A Lady in Black, Kenyon Cox, 1880
Kenyon Cox, portraitKenyon CoxAmerican, 1856–1919

A Lady in Black

1880 · Painting · 52.7 × 32.7 cm

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Yes, receiving visitors

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C., United States

RoomLuce Foundation Center, 3rd Floor, 2A

On public display.

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About the painting

This is a portrait of the wife of Kenyon Cox’s friend the painter Lowell Dyer. In 1880, Cox exhibited the painting in Philadelphia, and also entered it in a Paris show under the French title Dame en noir. This masterful portrait sketch focuses our eyes on Mrs. Dyer’s spirited expression and tilt of the head. Cox’s fast brushwork gives the lavish hat ribbons tied at her neck the same exuberance as his sitter’s personality.

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Particulars

Accession number
1983.31.4

What it shows

Figure female

In the catalog

PaintingsOilAmerican paintingImpressionism19th century

Sources

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