Elements of Art in Grain Farm 1929 John Rogers Cox Paintings

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Gray and Gold

Grey and Gold

1942

Oil on canvas

Framed: 116 x 152 x 12.5 cm (45 11/16 x 59 13/sixteen x 4 xv/16 in.); Unframed: 91.5 x 151.8 cm (36 ten 59 3/four in.)

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1943.60

Location

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This painting's rustic frame salvages beetle-damaged woods caused past the devastating early 20th-century Chestnut blight.

Description

Cox painted Gray and Gold before long afterward the United States joined the Second World War, and its prototype of amber waves of grain threatened past ominous tempest clouds likely has symbolic overtones. The painting'due south foreground features an intersection of two dirt lanes, besides as a phone pole emblazoned with political campaign posters. The artist seems to imply that American democracy is at a crossroads during this fourth dimension of gainsay confronting the spread of fascism in Europe and Asia. Interestingly the work was inspired by the landscape around Cox'south hometown of Terre Haute, Indiana, a location nicknamed "The Crossroads of America" due to the junction of major north-south and east-west national highways within its metropolis limits. The museum purchased this painting out of a traveling exhibition entitled "Artists for Victory," which consisted of works past artists who wanted to assist in the state of war effort. The exhibition opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on the first ceremony of the bombing at Pearl Harbor.

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed lower right: John Rogers Cox 1942

Provenance

1942 -1943

(Artists for Victory, Inc., 1942-1943 exhibition, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) ^one

1943-

The Cleveland Museum of Fine art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Artists for Victory: An Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, Paintings, Sculpture, Prints. two vols. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Fine art, 1942.

"Victory Show Sales," Art Digest 17 (April 1, 1943) Mentioned p. 15

Metropolitan Museum of Fine art. Artists for Victory: An Exhibition of Contemporary American Fine art, A Picture Book of the Prize Winners. New York, 1942. Reproduced: fig. 15

Jewell, Edward Alden. "Artists For Victory: Metropolitan Opens Tomorrow the Huge Contemporary American Survey." The New York Times, December vi, 1942. Reproduced

"Artists for Victory Score Victory in Metropolitan Exhibition," Art Assimilate 17 no. 6 (December, fifteen 1942). Mentioned: p. 6; Reproduced: p. 8

"The Artists for Victory Exhibition: The Paintings," Art News 41 (Jan 1, 1943). Mentioned: p. 8-9; Reproduced: p. nine

Art News 41 (January 15, 1943). Reproduced: p. 17

"Cleveland Museum of Art Presents Paintings Selected from National Exhibition," Cleveland Obviously Dealer, March 21, 1943. Reproduced

"Victory Prove Sales." Art Digest 17 (April one, 1943). Mentioned: p.15

Holme, Bryan. "New York Commentary." London Studio (July 1943). Reproduced: p. 28

West Virginia Pulp and Newspaper Company, Westvaco Inspirations for Printers 1942-1943 (1943). Mentioned: p. 143; Reproduced: encompass

Cravens, Dargan & Company Insurance Managers, Houston, Texas, Review 25 no. 5 (April 1944). Reproduced: cover

"State Artist'southward Piece of work Displayed." The Indianapolis Times, October xviii, 1944. Reproduced

"Greyness and Gilded by John Rogers Cox Voted Pop Prize," The Carnegie Mag (December 1944). Mentioned: p. 195-7; Reproduced: p. 195

"Hoosier'southward Painting Carnegie Favorite." Indianapolis Star, December v, 1944.

"Cox, Soldier-Artist, Wins Carnegie 'Popular'." Art Digest 19 (December 15, 1944). Mentioned: p. 9; Reproduced: p. nine

Time Mag (December eighteen, 1944). Mentioned: p. 50

The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Fine art 32, no. 7(September 1945). Mentioned: p. 138; Reproduced: p. 134

Milliken, William M. "Place of the Museum of Art in the Life of a Urban center." The Clevlander (August 1946). Reproduced: p. half dozen

"The Popular Prize." The Carnegie Magazine xx (Dec 1946). Mentioned: p. 172-3

"Cox Popular Selection of Carnegie Visitors." Art Assimilate 21 (Dec 15, 1946). Mentioned: p. 9

Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, State Fair of Texas, Famous American Paintings (1948). Reproduced

Catalogue de Reproductions en Couleurs de la Peinture de 1860 a 1949. Paris: Unesco, 1949. Mentioned: p. 62-3; Reproduced: p. 63

New York Times Book Review, Oct 16, 1955. Reproduced

"Anniversary Yr Exhibit to Open Sunday at Swope Gallery Preview." The Terre Haute Star, Nov 2, 1962. Reproduced

Wahl, Charles William, Yard.D., "Psychodynamics of Sexual Humor: Sex and the Salesman." Medical Aspects of Man Sexuality (August 1978). Reproduced: p. 26-vii, embrace

Szymanski, Ronald, ed. America in Literature: The Midwest. New York: Charles Scribner'due south Sons, 1979. Reproduced: cover

Sheldon Swope Fine art Gallery. "The Sheldon Swope Art Gallery Newsletter." (May-July 1982). Reproduced: fig. 2

Kinsman, Robert D. "Art from Swope: Painting looks at forces of nature." The Tribune-Star- Terre Haute, May 16, 1982. Mentioned: p. 12; Reproduced

Hubbard, Guy. "Teaching Fine art with Art: Turbulent Skyscapes." Arts & Activities 103, no. three (April 1988). Mentioned: p. 26-7

"A final tribute." Tribune-Star, Terre Haute, Feb 4, 1990. Reproduced

Chong, Alan. European and American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland Museum of Fine art: Cleveland, 1993. Reproduced: p. 46

Chaon, Dan. Plumbing fixtures Ends and Other Stories past Dan Chaon. Evanston: Northwestern University Press,1995. Reproduced: cover

Païni, Dominique, and Guy Cogeval. Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences. Montreal: The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2000. Mentioned: p. 341

Stearns, Robert. ed. Illusions of Eden. Visions of the American Heartland. Minneapolis: Arts Midwest, 2000. Mentioned: p. 271; Reproduced: p. 94

Maciejunes, Nannette V. "Visions of the American Heartland." American Art Review 12, no. ii (March-Apr 2000). Mentioned: p. 114

"Vienna and Budapest: Illusions of Eden." The Burlington Magazine (Nov 2000). Mentioned: p. 719

Academic Medicine: Journal of the Clan of American Medical Colleges. (August, 2001). Reproduced: p. 761; embrace

Dijkstra, Bram. American Expressionism: Art and Social Change 1920-1950. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2003. Mentioned: p. 188, 196

Norman, Bud. The Things That Are Caesar's: A Comic Tale of Politics, Religion, and Other Impolite Topics. Wichita: Affiliated Writers of America, 2003. Reproduced: back cover

Martha Parrish & James Reinish, Inc., 19th and 20th Century European and American Fine art (gallery catalogue) (February, 2005).

Chandler, Neal, ed. "Silver Apples of the Moon: Art and Poetry." Cleveland: Cleveland State Verse Center in association with Shaker Heights Public Library, 2006. Reproduced: p. 53

Adams, Henry. What's American about American Art? A Gallery Tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Fine art, 2008. Mentioned: p. 141

Walker, Andrew, ed. Joe Jones: Radical Painter of the American Scene. Exh. cat. St. Louis: St. Louis Art Museum, 2010. Mentioned: p. 76; Reproduced: p. 75

Perry, Dee. "Personal Favorite." Cleveland Art 50 (March/April 2010). Mentioned: p. 10

"Toward the Vision: The Cleveland Museum of Art." Museum publication booklet. 2012. Reproduced: comprehend

Kash, Steve. "Life Every bit an Artist." Tribune-Star- Terre Haute, Oct seven, 2012. Mentioned: p. D4

Cole, Marking. "American Art of the 1930s to 1950s." Cleveland Art 54 (January/Feb 2014). Mentioned: p. 21

Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 23

Daiss, Susan Contrivance-Peters. "Art at the Bedside: Reflections on Use of Visual Imagery in Hospital Chaplaincy." Periodical of Pastoral Care & Counseling 70, no. ane (March 2016). Reproduced: p.77

Eldredge, Charles C. We Get together Together: American Artists and the Harvest. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2021. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 89, fig. 44

Exhibition history

Toronto, Art Gallery of Toronto (February 1945).

Terre Haute, Indiana, Sheldon Swope Art Gallery (May 1945).

Columbus, OH, Columbus Museum of Art, Illusions of Eden: Visions of the American Heartland (xviii February - 30 April 2000) cat. ill. cover, pp. 94, 186, p. 271 ; traveled to Vienna, Republic of austria, Museum of Modernistic Fine art/Ludwig Foundation Vienna (i June - fifteen August 2000); traveled to Budapest, Hungary, Ludwig Museum/Museum of Gimmicky Art (25 September - 26 November 2000); did not travel to Madison, Wisconsin, Madison Fine art Center (24 Feb - 13 May 2001); did not travel to Sioux Falls, Due south Dakota, Washington Pavilion of Arts & Science (June - Baronial 2001).

The Cleveland Museum of Art (03/01/2006 - 06/01/2006); "American Icons: American Masterworks from the 1930s"

Artists for Victory. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (co-organizer) (January 1-February 22, 1943).

54th Almanac Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture. The Art Institute of Chicago (organizer) (October 28-Dec 12, 1943).

Painting in the United States, 1944. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (organizer) (co-organizer) (September 5-Dec x, 1944).

Gimmicky American Painting. Rhode Isle School of Blueprint (organizer) (February 6-28, 1946).

Museum'southward Selection. Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA (organizer) (March 8-Apr thirty, 1946).

The fifty Nigh Popular Paintings in the History of American Fine art. The Dallas Museum of Art (organizer) (October 9-Nov 7, 1948).

Life in America. Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (organizer) (co-organizer) (March 4-April thirty, 1951).

Centennial Exhibition. Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE (organizer) (co-organizer) (May eleven-July 4, 1954).

Illusion and Reality. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (organizer) (co-organizer) (June fifteen-July 22, 1956); Pasadena Museum of California Art (Baronial v-September 9, 1956); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October v-31, 1956); The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (October 31-November 30, 1956).

20th Anniversary Special Exhibition: lx Terre Haute Artists. Sheldon Swope Art Museum Inc., Terra Haute, IN (organizer) (November 4-December 2, 1962).

An Unfulfilled Dream: The Neglected Generation of American Scene Painters: 1930-1948. Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS (organizer) (May ii-June xiv, 1981).

A Retrospective Exhibition of the Art of John Rogers Cox. Sheldon Swope Fine art Museum Inc., Terra Haute, IN (organizer) (May 14-June xiii, 1982).

Illusions of Eden: Visions of the American Heartland. Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (organizer) (February 18-April 30, 2000).

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