TitleGrez, seen across open field
Artist
Kenyon Cox
(American, 1856 - 1919)
Date1879
MediumOil on composition board
DimensionsUnframed: 8 1/8 × 13 3/8 in.
Storage: 11 1/4 × 14 1/4 × 1 1/4 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 number1616.6-P
Label TextCox spent most of the summer of 1879 in Grez-sur-Loing, a small town some forty-three miles south of Paris, which he had first visited the year before. He wrote his mother on June 2, describing his work on several small pictures and including a pencil sketch of "the best of them." The sketch matches Grez, Seen across Open Field. Cox supplemented the drawing with a description of the colors: [block quote:]
You can imagine the purple grays of the village roofs with the old church standing above all, the long wall with the yellow cabbage blossoms relieved against it and the green fields of different tints with the road running through them and so perhaps get a faint notion . . . of a French village.
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