Drawing, Design for Magazine Cover

This is a Drawing. It was created by Kenyon Cox. It is dated 1897 and we acquired it in 1923. Its medium is graphite on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Mrs. Kenyon Cox. It is credited Gift of Mrs. Kenyon Cox.

Its dimensions are

34.2 × 48.6 cm (13 7/16 × 19 1/8 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, lower left: July—yellow and reddish violet (?) – crowned with/ wheat ears and field lilies or other summer flowers—/ sheaves of wheat ˄ and sickles in side panels—; in graphite, lower center: April—Green and Rose—/ Apple blossoms with falling petals/ side panels with reversed urns/ for Spring showers—/ Or the blossoms could be left/ out entirely and indicated/ by a flower in one hand or a pattern on the gown—I have/ not made up my mind—; in graphite, lower right: January— Figure draped in/ purplish brown— Perhaps a […] tree (?) side panels of blazing […]

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