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Gray and Gold

by John Rogers Cox

Arianna & Shania

Medium:Oil paints

Colors:Neutral (Brown a...

Medium:Oil paints

Colors:Neutral (Brown and Gray)

Artist Style:

Artist Style:

John Rogers Cox paintings represent realism. Most of his paintings were landscapes. Sometimes he would draw directly on the canvas then paint, sometimes he just paint directly. Other times he sketches part of his idea in oil on little panels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rogers_Cox

Gray and Gold

Gray and Gold - John Rogers Cox - The Athenaeum, www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=258800.

Wheat Field

Wheat Field - John Rogers Cox - The Athenaeum, www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=263248.

Allegory

Allegory - John Rogers Cox - The Athenaeum, www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=258802.

Cloud Trails

http://arthistoryreference.com/cgi-bin/hd.exe?art2=a11820

Influential artwork

  • Created by Charles Burchfield

"Road with telephone poles" in 1917

  • Influential areas can be seen throughout the painting being that it is a landscape (dirt roads, fields, etc)

ArtHistoryReference - John Rogers Cox, arthistoryreference.com/a1/59348.htm.

Historical Period

  • John Rogers Cox created the painting in 1942 after the United States joined World War II.
  • Cox wanted to display how the American Democracy was at a crossroads so he used a landscape
  • The location he used was actually named "The crossroads of America"

“Art.” ThatIsAllForNow, thatisallfornow.com/?p=3298#.WgPnEWhSzIU.

Interpretation

  • The AMICA Library wrote about Gray and Gold stating that the painting is a metaphor of a world event by using storm clouds in the ominous sky. They begin to explain how sharp details and transparent glazes were created by mixing oil paint with turpentine.

Sharp detail: storm clouds, wheat in the fields, ridges in the road

John Rogers Cox / Gray and Gold / 1942, www.davidrumsey.com/amica/amico260118-34501.html.

References

Allegory - John Rogers Cox - The Athenaeum, www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=258802.

ArtHistoryReference - John Rogers Cox, arthistoryreference.com/a1/59348.htm.

“Art.” ThatIsAllForNow, thatisallfornow.com/?p=3298#.WgPnEWhSzIU.

“Charles Burchfield.” DC Moore Gallery, www.dcmooregallery.com/artists/charles-burchfield/series/watercolors2?view=slider#3.

Gray and Gold Cleveland Museum of Art, www.clevelandart.org/art/1943.60.

Gray and Gold - John Rogers Cox - The Athenaeum, www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=258800.

John Rogers Cox / Gray and Gold / 1942, www.davidrumsey.com/amica/amico260118-34501.html.

Wheat Field - John Rogers Cox - The Athenaeum, www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=263248.

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