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A Lady in Black
From the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
This is a portrait of the wife of Kenyon Cox’s friend the painter Lowell Dyer. In 1880, Cox exhibited the painting in Philadelphia, and also entered it in a Paris show under the French title Dame en noir. This masterful portrait sketch focuses our eyes on Mrs. Dyer’s spirited expression and tilt of the head. Cox’s fast brushwork gives the lavish hat ribbons tied at her neck the same exuberance as his sitter’s personality.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineA Lady in Black. 1880. Kenyon Cox, born Warren, OH 1856-died New York City 1919. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Allyn Cox. CC0.
