COX, KENYON (1856-1919), American painter, was born at Warren (0.), on Oct. 27, 1856, the son of Gen. Jacob Dolson Cox. He was a pupil of Carolus-Duran and of J. L. Gerome in Paris from 1877-82, when he returned to New York, subsequently teaching with much success in the Art Students' League. It was in mural decorative work that he achieved prominence. Among the better-known examples of his work are the frieze for the court room of the Appellate Court, New York, and decorations for the Walker Art Gallery, Bowdoin College; for the Capitol at St. Paul (Minn.), and elsewhere. He also wrote with much authority on art topics, and was the author of Old Masters and New (1905), Painters and Sculptors (1907), The Classic Point of View (1912), Artist and Public (1914), Winslow Homer (1914), and Concern ing Painting (1917), besides some poems. He became a National Academician in 1903, and in 1910 was awarded the medal of honour for mural painting by the Architectural League. His wife, née Louise H. King (b. 1865), whom he married in 1892, also became a figure and portrait-painter of note. Kenyon Cox died in New York on March 17, 1919.