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