Kenyon Cox papers, 1860-1922

Summary Information

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