The artist of this drawing is Kenyon Cox. Kenyon Cox was an American painter, illustrator, and teacher who was born in Warren, Ohio in 1856. During his early years around 1869, he attended classes at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Afterwards, Cox studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1876 to further his education. In order to become more knowledgeable and involved in the art community, in the next year Cox moved to Europe and studied in Paris and Italy. Carolus-Duran, Alexandre Cabanel, and Jean-Léon Gérôme, were all artists that Cox studied under at the École des Beaux-Arts, a fine arts school in France. After spending a few years in Europe, Cox moved back to America in 1882 and settled in New York for the remainder of…show more content… It shows the allegorical figure of Romance resting her head in her hand while looking down at the book she is holding in her lap. The figure takes up most of the composition on the page. Because she is leaning to the left, this creates a diagonal that leads the viewer’s eyes down to the book then down her thigh towards her knee which creates another diagonal. In this sketch, there is the frequent use of line. Throughout the figure there are directional lines that represent shading. They are mostly noticeable in the short stroke lines that occur on the curve of the hip to the thigh, on the left arm near the shoulder, the chest, and stomach. These lines add form and value that show the curvature of those body parts. There is a delicate contour line around the figure that is specific to this model and is not generalized. For instance, the curve of the skin around the waist where it bends, the dip in the side of the buttocks where the muscle is, and the bone that protrudes out under the skin at the top of the shoulders are all precise details that were carefully observed. In addition to that, there are also thin lines that create the rectangle that surrounds the figure. These line elements come together to create texture within the figure that would not have been present if the graphite was
