TitleGothic Towers
Artist
Kenyon Cox
(American, 1856 - 1919)
Date1877-1878
MediumOil on canvas board
DimensionsUnframed: 10 1/4 × 5 1/4 in.
Framed: 11 1/4 × 6 × 3/4 in.
SignedSigned on verso: "By Kenyon Cox"
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Gift of Allyn Cox, Caroline Cox Lansing, and Leonard Cox, 1959
Object number1616.13-P
Label TextProbably a sketch made in Rouen, Gothic Towers demonstrates Cox's love of the haphazard qualities of the local architecture. He wrote home of "the quaint, bulging, fantastically gabled and chimneyed houses breaking out into spikes & leafwork atop."
