Kenyon CoxEstados Unidos, 1856–1919Study for "Science Instructing Industry"
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Museo Smithsoniano de Arte Americano
Washington D. C., Estados Unidos
SalaLuce Foundation Center, 4th Floor, 35B
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- Comprobado
- hace 9 días
- En este estado desde
- 25 sept 2026
- Fuente
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About the painting
In the late nineteenth century, artists decorated America’s public buildings with murals that were meant to teach moral and civic lessons to visitors passing through the halls. Many artists chose mythological or allegorical scenes. In this study, Kenyon Cox represented industry as a muscular young man and science as a laurel-crowned, toga-clad woman. The ruddy skin of the male figure contrasts sharply with the white toga and milky skin of the goddess, a choice Cox made so that the figures, posed closely together, would read clearly from a distance in the finished mural. Cox believed that mythological figures provided more beautiful decoration than figures dressed in contemporary clothes. He once wrote that “The painter who cares greatly for the expressiveness of the body will feel little attraction to belt buckles and brass buttons” (Morgan, Keepers of Culture, 1989).
Museo Smithsoniano de Arte Americano
Ficha
- Número de inventario
- 1983.114.17
What it shows
Fuentes
- Museo Smithsoniano de Arte Americano: the museum's own open data · obtenido hace 9 días
- Imagen: Museo Smithsoniano de Arte Americano — CC0
