Seated Male Nude: Study for "Science" - Iowa State Capitol

1905

Kenyon Cox

Artist, American, 1856 - 1919

Media Options

This object’s media is free and in the public domain. Read our full Open Access policy for images.
Not on view See artworks now on view

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite pencil, squared in graphite, on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    John Davis Hatch Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 40.5 × 28.1 cm (15 15/16 × 11 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1979.20.21

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

John Davis Hatch [1907-1996]; gift 1979 to the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1975

  • The American Face and Figure: Drawings from the Collection of John Davis Hatch, Sterling and Francine Art Institute, Williamstown, MA; and The University of Rhode Island, Kingston, 1975.

2025

  • The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876-1817, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 2024-2025, p. 217, cat. 80, repro.

Bibliography

2024

  • Mitchell, Mark DeSaussure.The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876-1917. Exh cat. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 2024: cat. 80, 217, color repro.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: K. Cox / 1905; across bottom edge in graphite: Science- / Iowa StateCapitol

Markings

None.

Watermarks

EGYPTIAN / LINEN / Geo B Hurd & Co.

Wikidata ID

Q64592535

You may be interested in

Loading Results