id: 123365
accession number: 1943.60
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Gray and Gold, 1942. John Rogers Cox (American, 1915–1990). Oil on canvas; framed: 116 x 152 x 12.5 cm (45 11/16 x 59 13/16 x 4 15/16 in.); unframed: 91.5 x 151.8 cm (36 x 59 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1943.60
title: Gray and Gold
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creation date: 1942
creation date earliest: 1942
creation date latest: 1942
current location: 226B American Modern
creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: American Painting and Sculpture
collection: American - Painting
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* John Rogers Cox (American, 1915–1990) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 116 x 152 x 12.5 cm (45 11/16 x 59 13/16 x 4 15/16 in.); Unframed: 91.5 x 151.8 cm (36 x 59 3/4 in.)
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inscription: signed lower right: John Rogers Cox 1942
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Artists for Victory
opening date: 1943-01-01T04:00:00
Artists for Victory. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (co-organizer) (January 1-February 22, 1943).
title: 54th Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture
opening date: 1943-10-28T04:00:00
54th Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture. The Art Institute of Chicago (organizer) (October 28-December 12, 1943).
title: Painting in the United States, 1944
opening date: 1944-09-05T04:00:00
Painting in the United States, 1944. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (organizer) (co-organizer) (September 5-December 10, 1944).
title: Contemporary American Painting
opening date: 1946-02-06T05:00:00
Contemporary American Painting. Rhode Island School of Design (organizer) (February 6-28, 1946).
title: Museum's Choice
opening date: 1946-03-08T05:00:00
Museum's Choice. Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA (organizer) (March 8-April 30, 1946).
title: The 50 Most Popular Paintings in the History of American Art
opening date: 1948-10-09T05:00:00
The 50 Most Popular Paintings in the History of American Art. The Dallas Museum of Art (organizer) (October 9-November 7, 1948).
title: Life in America
opening date: 1951-03-04T05:00:00
Life in America. Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (organizer) (co-organizer) (March 4-April 30, 1951).
title: Centennial Exhibition
opening date: 1954-05-11T04:00:00
Centennial Exhibition. Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE (organizer) (co-organizer) (May 11-July 4, 1954).
title: Illusion and Reality
opening date: 1956-08-05T04:00:00
Illusion and Reality. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 15-July 22, 1956); Pasadena Museum of California Art (August 5-September 9, 1956); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 5-31, 1956); The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (October 31-November 30, 1956).
title: 20th Anniversary Special Exhibition: 60 Terre Haute Artists
opening date: 1962-11-04T05:00:00
20th Anniversary Special Exhibition: 60 Terre Haute Artists. Sheldon Swope Art Museum Inc., Terra Haute, IN (organizer) (November 4-December 2, 1962).
title: An Unfulfilled Dream: The Neglected Generation of American Scene Painters: 1930-1948
opening date: 1981-05-02T04:00:00
An Unfulfilled Dream: The Neglected Generation of American Scene Painters: 1930-1948. Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS (organizer) (May 2-June 14, 1981).
title: A Retrospective Exhibition of the Art of John Rogers Cox
opening date: 1982-05-14T04:00:00
A Retrospective Exhibition of the Art of John Rogers Cox. Sheldon Swope Art Museum Inc., Terra Haute, IN (organizer) (May 14-June 13, 1982).
title: Illusions of Eden: Visions of the American Heartland
opening date: 2000-02-18T00:00:00
Illusions of Eden: Visions of the American Heartland. Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (organizer) (February 18-April 30, 2000).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Toronto, Art Gallery of Toronto (February 1945).', 'opening_date': '1945-02-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Terre Haute, Indiana, Sheldon Swope Art Gallery (May 1945).', 'opening_date': '1945-05-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Columbus, OH, Columbus Museum of Art, Illusions of Eden: Visions of the American Heartland (18 February - 30 April 2000) cat. ill. cover, pp. 94, 186, p. 271 ; traveled to Vienna, Austria, Museum of Modern Art/Ludwig Foundation Vienna (1 June - 15 August 2000); traveled to Budapest, Hungary, Ludwig Museum/Museum of Contemporary Art (25 September - 26 November 2000); did not travel to Madison, Wisconsin, Madison Art Center (24 February - 13 May 2001); did not travel to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Washington Pavilion of Arts & Science (June - August 2001).', 'opening_date': '2000-02-18T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'The Cleveland Museum of Art (03/01/2006 - 06/01/2006); "American Icons: American Masterworks from the 1930s"', 'opening_date': '2006-03-01T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
(Artists for Victory, Inc., 1942-1943 exhibition, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: 1942 -1943
footnotes:
* Purchased with income from the Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund, from Artists for Victory, Inc. The Artists for Victory exhibition, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, was also mounted at the Cleveland Museum of Art, in 1943.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1943-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Artists for Victory: An Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, Paintings, Sculpture, Prints. 2 vols. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1942.
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"Victory Show Sales," Art Digest 17 (April 1, 1943)
page number: Mentioned p. 15
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Korkow, Cory. “Four Curators, Four Favorites.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 62, no. 2 (2022): 29.
page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 29.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art. Artists for Victory: An Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, A Picture Book of the Prize Winners. New York, 1942.
page number: Reproduced: fig. 15
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Jewell, Edward Alden. "Artists For Victory: Metropolitan Opens Tomorrow the Huge Contemporary American Survey." The New York Times, December 6, 1942.
page number: Reproduced
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"Artists for Victory Score Victory in Metropolitan Exhibition," Art Digest 17 no. 6 (December, 15 1942).
page number: Mentioned: p. 6; Reproduced: p. 8
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"The Artists for Victory Exhibition: The Paintings," Art News 41 (January 1, 1943).
page number: Mentioned: p. 8-9; Reproduced: p. 9
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Art News 41 (January 15, 1943).
page number: Reproduced: p. 17
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"Cleveland Museum of Art Presents Paintings Selected from National Exhibition," Cleveland Plain Dealer, March 21, 1943.
page number: Reproduced
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"Victory Show Sales." Art Digest 17 (April 1, 1943).
page number: Mentioned: p.15
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Holme, Bryan. "New York Commentary." London Studio (July 1943).
page number: Reproduced: p. 28
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West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, Westvaco Inspirations for Printers 1942-1943 (1943).
page number: Mentioned: p. 143; Reproduced: cover
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Cravens, Dargan & Company Insurance Managers, Houston, Texas, Review 25 no. 5 (April 1944).
page number: Reproduced: cover
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"State Artist's Work Displayed." The Indianapolis Times, October 18, 1944.
page number: Reproduced
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"Grey and Gold by John Rogers Cox Voted Popular Prize," The Carnegie Magazine (December 1944).
page number: Mentioned: p. 195-7; Reproduced: p. 195
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"Hoosier's Painting Carnegie Favorite." Indianapolis Star, December 5, 1944.
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"Cox, Soldier-Artist, Wins Carnegie 'Popular'." Art Digest 19 (December 15, 1944).
page number: Mentioned: p. 9; Reproduced: p. 9
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Time Magazine (December 18, 1944).
page number: Mentioned: p. 50
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The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 32, no. 7(September 1945).
page number: Mentioned: p. 138; Reproduced: p. 134
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Milliken, William M. "Place of the Museum of Art in the Life of a City." The Clevlander (August 1946).
page number: Reproduced: p. 6
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"The Popular Prize." The Carnegie Magazine 20 (December 1946).
page number: Mentioned: p. 172-3
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"Cox Popular Choice of Carnegie Visitors." Art Digest 21 (December 15, 1946).
page number: Mentioned: p. 9
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Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, State Fair of Texas, Famous American Paintings (1948).
page number: Reproduced
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Catalogue de Reproductions en Couleurs de la Peinture de 1860 a 1949. Paris: Unesco, 1949.
page number: Mentioned: p. 62-3; Reproduced: p. 63
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New York Times Book Review, October 16, 1955.
page number: Reproduced
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"Anniversary Year Exhibit to Open Sunday at Swope Gallery Preview." The Terre Haute Star, November 2, 1962.
page number: Reproduced
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Wahl, Charles William, M.D., "Psychodynamics of Sexual Humor: Sex and the Salesman." Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality (August 1978).
page number: Reproduced: p. 26-7, cover
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Szymanski, Ronald, ed. America in Literature: The Midwest. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1979.
page number: Reproduced: cover
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Sheldon Swope Art Gallery. "The Sheldon Swope Art Gallery Newsletter." (May-July 1982).
page number: Reproduced: fig. 2
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Kinsman, Robert D. "Art from Swope: Painting looks at forces of nature." The Tribune-Star- Terre Haute, May 16, 1982.
page number: Mentioned: p. 12; Reproduced
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Hubbard, Guy. "Teaching Art with Art: Turbulent Skyscapes." Arts & Activities 103, no. 3 (April 1988).
page number: Mentioned: p. 26-7
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"A final tribute." Tribune-Star, Terre Haute, February 4, 1990.
page number: Reproduced
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Chong, Alan. European and American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland Museum of Art: Cleveland, 1993.
page number: Reproduced: p. 46
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Chaon, Dan. Fitting Ends and Other Stories by Dan Chaon. Evanston: Northwestern University Press,1995.
page number: Reproduced: cover
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Païni, Dominique, and Guy Cogeval. Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences. Montreal: The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2000.
page number: Mentioned: p. 341
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Stearns, Robert. ed. Illusions of Eden. Visions of the American Heartland. Minneapolis: Arts Midwest, 2000.
page number: Mentioned: p. 271; Reproduced: p. 94
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Maciejunes, Nannette V. "Visions of the American Heartland." American Art Review 12, no. 2 (March-April 2000).
page number: Mentioned: p. 114
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"Vienna and Budapest: Illusions of Eden." The Burlington Magazine (November 2000).
page number: Mentioned: p. 719
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Academic Medicine: Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. (August, 2001).
page number: Reproduced: p. 761; cover
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Dijkstra, Bram. American Expressionism: Art and Social Change 1920-1950. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2003.
page number: Mentioned: p. 188, 196
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Norman, Bud. The Things That Are Caesar’s: A Comic Tale of Politics, Religion, and Other Impolite Topics. Wichita: Affiliated Writers of America, 2003.
page number: Reproduced: back cover
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Martha Parrish & James Reinish, Inc., 19th and 20th Century European and American Art (gallery catalogue) (February, 2005).
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Chandler, Neal, ed. "Silver Apples of the Moon: Art and Poetry." Cleveland: Cleveland State Poetry Center in association with Shaker Heights Public Library, 2006.
page number: Reproduced: p. 53
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Adams, Henry. What's American about American Art? A Gallery Tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008.
page number: Mentioned: p. 141
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Walker, Andrew, ed. Joe Jones: Radical Painter of the American Scene. Exh. cat. St. Louis: St. Louis Art Museum, 2010.
page number: Mentioned: p. 76; Reproduced: p. 75
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Perry, Dee. "Personal Favorite." Cleveland Art 50 (March/April 2010).
page number: Mentioned: p. 10
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"Toward the Vision: The Cleveland Museum of Art." Museum publication booklet. 2012.
page number: Reproduced: cover
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Kash, Steve. "Life As an Artist." Tribune-Star- Terre Haute, October 7, 2012.
page number: Mentioned: p. D4
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Cole, Mark. "American Art of the 1930s to 1950s." Cleveland Art 54 (January/February 2014).
page number: Mentioned: p. 21
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Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 59
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Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 23
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Daiss, Susan Dodge-Peters. "Art at the Bedside: Reflections on Use of Visual Imagery in Hospital Chaplaincy." Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling 70, no. 1 (March 2016).
page number: Reproduced: p.77
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Eldredge, Charles C. We Gather Together: American Artists and the Harvest. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2021.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 89, fig. 44
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page number: Mentioned: p. 60; Reproduced: p. 60, ill. 4, p. 91
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