TitleOn a Hill-top
Artist
Kenyon Cox
(American, 1856 - 1919)
Date1890
MediumOil on panel
DimensionsUnframed: 10 3/8 × 14 3/4 in.
Storage: 11 1/4 × 14 1/4 × 1 3/8 in.
SignedSigned on verso: "On a Hill-top / by Kenyon Cox / 145 West 55th St. 1890 / New York"
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Gift of Allyn Cox, Caroline Cox Lansing, and Leonard Cox, 1959
Object number1616.14-P
Label TextCox made this small study five years after writing his father of his decision to concentrate on figure painting and no longer attempt large, finished landscapes: "As to landscape, you know I have no ability whatever to paint it except directly from nature."
