GENERAL DESCRIPTION
John Rogers Cox is associated with regionalism, an American artistic movement that was especially popular during the 1930s. Regionalists usually preferred rural subjects and worked in a naturalistic style. The uncanny quality of Cox’s meticulous style, however, is also exemplary of magic realism, a stylistic tendency that developed in both Europe and America after World War I, though it was never a unified movement. Reacting against the abstract painting that had occurred during the early 20th century, magic realist artists depicted seemingly everyday subjects in a hyper–realistic manner, giving their works an eerie, seemingly magical quality.
Adapted from
Sara Woodbury, DMA label text, 2011
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Created in 1951
ed. of 250
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From Associated American Artists, 711 Fifth Avenue, New York 22, N.Y.
"Briefly concerning the artist—
Born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1915, John Rogers Cox did not become active in the art field until 1941. Within this comparatively short time, however, he has achieved a ranking position among contemporary American artists. He was director of the Swope Art Gallery in Terre Haute from 1941 to 1943, when he resigned to devote more of his time to painting. The policy of the Gallery under his directorship was the acquisition of a collection of outstanding contemporary American art.
He exhibited first at the Carnegie Institute in 1941 and at the Pennsylvania Academy in the same year. In 1942 he exhibited "Gray and Gold" at the Artists for Victory exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, and received the second medal for painting. At the close of the exhibition the painting was sold to the Cleveland Museum of art. IOn 1943 he recieved third prize for his painting"White Cloud" exhibited at the Carnegie Museum. He has also exhibited at the Boston and Chicago Art Institutes, the Nebraska Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Toledo Art Institute, and the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis."
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"John Rogers Cox, a student of the Pennsylvania Academy of Design, was a bank teller in Terre Haute, Indiana, until offered the directorship of the newly formed Swope Museum. This youngest museum director in the United States built up a fine collection of American art for his museum, and in his spare time he painted a few pictures. In 1944 and again in 1946 visitors to the Carnegie Exhibition voted two of his few paintings the annual popularity prize. His detailed and carefully painted canvases give a strong feeling of reality to the landscapes of his region."
From Famous American Paintings assembled for the State Fair of TX 1948, exh cat from Piction
Cox, John Rogers (American, 1915-1990)
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From 2001: Dallas Museum of Art, bequest of Rozwell Sam Adams in memory of Herndon Kimball Adams and Loither Iler Adams
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John Rogers Cox, Google Books~Check out this article about John Rogers Cox in Life magazine from July 12, 1948.
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General Description
John Rogers Cox is associated with regionalism, an American artistic movement that was especially popular during the 1930s. Regionalists usually preferred rural subjects and worked in a naturalistic style. The uncanny quality of Cox’s meticulous style, however, is also exemplary of magic realism, a stylistic tendency that developed in both Europe and America after World War I, though it was never a unified movement. Reacting against the abstract painting that had occurred during the early 20th century, magic realist artists depicted seemingly everyday subjects in a hyper–realistic manner, giving their works an eerie, seemingly magical quality.
Adapted from
Sara Woodbury, DMA label text, 2011
Fun Facts
Archival Resources
Web Resources
John Rogers Cox, Google Books~Check out this article about John Rogers Cox in Life magazine from July 12, 1948.
Notes
Created in 1951
ed. of 250
Object file reviewed
From Associated American Artists, 711 Fifth Avenue, New York 22, N.Y.
"Briefly concerning the artist—
Born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1915, John Rogers Cox did not become active in the art field until 1941. Within this comparatively short time, however, he has achieved a ranking position among contemporary American artists. He was director of the Swope Art Gallery in Terre Haute from 1941 to 1943, when he resigned to devote more of his time to painting. The policy of the Gallery under his directorship was the acquisition of a collection of outstanding contemporary American art.
He exhibited first at the Carnegie Institute in 1941 and at the Pennsylvania Academy in the same year. In 1942 he exhibited "Gray and Gold" at the Artists for Victory exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, and received the second medal for painting. At the close of the exhibition the painting was sold to the Cleveland Museum of art. IOn 1943 he recieved third prize for his painting"White Cloud" exhibited at the Carnegie Museum. He has also exhibited at the Boston and Chicago Art Institutes, the Nebraska Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Toledo Art Institute, and the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis."
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"John Rogers Cox, a student of the Pennsylvania Academy of Design, was a bank teller in Terre Haute, Indiana, until offered the directorship of the newly formed Swope Museum. This youngest museum director in the United States built up a fine collection of American art for his museum, and in his spare time he painted a few pictures. In 1944 and again in 1946 visitors to the Carnegie Exhibition voted two of his few paintings the annual popularity prize. His detailed and carefully painted canvases give a strong feeling of reality to the landscapes of his region."
From Famous American Paintings assembled for the State Fair of TX 1948, exh cat from Piction
Cox, John Rogers (American, 1915-1990)
Cultures
Geography
Depicted location: Midwest (United States): TGN: 4007191
Process/materials
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
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PROVENANCE
From 2001: Dallas Museum of Art, bequest of Rozwell Sam Adams in memory of Herndon Kimball Adams and Loither Iler Adams
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