# Tradition, in Kenyon Cox

Kenyon Cox painted this in 1916, aged 60. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> This painting demonstrates Cox's ideas about the importance in art of tradition and the classical spirit. Two figures in Grecian costumes, representing the arts of the past, pass on the eternal flame of tradition to two figures in Renaissance dress. Literature wears the laurel crown, and Painting holds the palette.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: 1916
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: Unframed: 106 x 165.5 cm (41 3/4 x 65 3/16 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1917.9
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Kenyon Cox](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/kenyon-cox), American, 1856–1919

Cox trained in Cincinnati, Philadelphia and Paris, where he studied with Carolus-Duran and Jean-Léon Gérôme, before settling in New York in 1883.

5 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Kenyon Cox's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-kenyon-cox?hang=749) (8 works)
- [More Early modernism](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/early-modernism?hang=749) (68 works)
- [20th-century United States](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/20-united-states?hang=749) (124 works)

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