Study for "Hope and Memory" by Kenyon Cox

A painted study of a young woman with wavy strawberry-blonde hair and a wistful, parted-lip expression, set within a pale blue circular halo against a dark ground. She wears a draped pink and violet garment at the shoulders, rendered in loose, feathery brushwork on a canvas border.

Artist

Kenyon Cox

Date

ca. 1900

Medium

Bursh and oil paint, graphite on canvas

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

1280 × 1249 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum