ORThe Open Room
Digital gallery
Back to the NGA collection
The image depicts a seated man from the waist up, positioned sideways with his left arm resting on a chair or railing and his right hand near his face. He has a mustache and short hair, styled neatly. The man is dressed in a buttoned-up collared shirt. Surrounding him are various objects, including a glass and several vases on the window ledge behind him. The walls are adorned with a few portraits or photographs. The background features a window partially covered with a fringe-like decoration, allowing light to illuminate the scene.
Read the visual description

The image depicts a seated man from the waist up, positioned sideways with his left arm resting on a chair or railing and his right hand near his face. He has a mustache and short hair, styled neatly. The man is dressed in a buttoned-up collared shirt. Surrounding him are various objects, including a glass and several vases on the window ledge behind him. The walls are adorned with a few portraits or photographs. The background features a window partially covered with a fringe-like decoration, allowing light to illuminate the scene.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

A Corner Window, Will Low

Kenyon Cox

Date
1884
Medium
pen and black ink on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 32.39 × 17.78 cm (12 3/4 × 7 in.) sheet: 42.8 × 25.1 cm (16 7/8 × 9 7/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
1979.20.20
Credit line
John Davis Hatch Collection
Time span
1876 to 1900
Department
CG-W
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • American
  • male
  • portrait
  • Low, Will
Provenance

John Davis Hatch [1907-1996], by 1976; gift 1979 to the National Gallery of Art

Inscription

upper left in pen and black ink: Kenyon Cox- / 1884-; across bottom by unknown hand: "A Corner Window" / Kenyon Cox / study of cross lights, coming through the etcher's screen behind and down/ from above and infront.; lower left in graphite: Will Low; lower left in graphite: 3-30131; lower right in graphite: same size m m; lower right in black ink: make 4 1/4 inches high; across center verso in blue crayon: Mr. Kenyon Cox/ Holbein North Building

Watermarks

Perfection Linen

NGA object ID 56968. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.