Kenyon Cox papers, 1860-1922

Summary Information

At a Glance

Bib ID:
3460555 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Cox, Kenyon, 1856-1919
Repository:
Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Physical Description:
602 items
Language(s):
English .
Access:

This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.

Description

Summary

Included is Cox's correspondence, circa 1880 until his death in 1919, with architects, painters, sculptors, and writers including Bernard Berenson, Edwin Howland Blashfield, Will Hicock Low, John La Farge, Henry Oliver Walker, H. Siddons Mowbray, Theodore Robinson, Elliott Daingerfield, Lucia Fairchild Fuller, Howard Pyle, William A. Coffin, Russell Cowles, Daniel Chester French, Irving R. Wiles, James Monroe Hewlett, Harry Wilson Watrous, Edward R. Simmons, Maxfield and Stephen Parrish, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Louis Saint-Gaudens, John C. Van Dyke, Wendell P. Garrison, Richard Watson Gilder, Robert Underwood Johnson, the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White, Stanford White, Charles F. McKim, Cass Gilbert, Charles Adams Platt, and others. Of note are 136 from Cox to lawyer and author Leonard E. Opdyke. Correspondence, circa 1870-1922, with family members, particularly his father, Jacob Dolson Cox (a Union officer), his mother, Louise Howland King Cox (a painter), and his brother Jacob Dolson Cox, Jr. (a Cleveland industrialist and founder of the Cleveland Twist Drill Company). Correspondence of various other family members either among themselves, beginning circa 1860, or with Kenyon Cox is included. Also, manuscripts of Cox's essays, addresses, articles, and other writings on art, circa1870-1919; poetry; and juvenilia.

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Permission to publish must be obtained in writing from the Director, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, 1172 Amsterdam Ave., MC 0301, New York, NY 10027.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Various gifts. Accession number--1961.001, 1975.002, 1975.010, 1995.002.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library

Biographical / Historical

American artist, author.

Subject Headings

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Genre/Form
Poems CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Name
Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Cleveland Twist Drill Company CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Coffin, William A (William Anderson), 1855-1925 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Cowles, Russell, 1887-1979 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Cox, Jacob D (Jacob Dolson), 1828-1900 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Cox, Jacob Dolson, 1881-1953 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Cox, Louise Howland King, 1865-1945 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Daingerfield, Elliott, 1859-1932 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
French, Daniel Chester, 1850-1931 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Fuller, Lucia Fairchild, 1872-1924 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Garrison, Wendell Phillips, 1840-1907 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Gilder, Richard Watson, 1844-1909 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hewlett, James Monroe, 1868-1941 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Johnson, Robert Underwood, 1853-1937 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
La Farge, John, 1835-1910 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Low, Will Hicok, 1853-1932 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
McKim, Charles Follen, 1847-1909 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
McKim, Mead & White CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Mowbray, H. Siddons (Harry Siddons), 1858-1928 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Opdyke, Leonard E CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-1966 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Parrish, Stephen, 1846-1938 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Platt, Charles A (Charles Adams), 1861-1933 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Robinson, Theodore H (Theodore Henry), 1881-1964 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Saint-Gaudens, Louis, 1854- CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Simmons, Edward, 1852-1931 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Van Dyke, John C (John Charles), 1856-1918 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Walker, Henry Oliver, 1843-1929 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Watrous, Harry Wilson CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
White, Stanford, 1853-1906 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Wiles, Irving Ramsay, 1861-1948 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Subject
Architects -- United States CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Architectural firms -- United States CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Art -- Study and teaching CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Artists CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Authors CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Authors, American CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Painters -- United States CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Sculptors -- United States CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID