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    "localId": "95297",
    "label": "Design for United States Currency",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing"
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    "id": "95297",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "title": "Design for United States Currency",
    "description": "The painter and muralist Kenyon Cox viewed himself as the heir to the great traditions of the Italian Renaissance and vigorously led the resistance to all forms of modern painting. This design for U. S. currency, which was rejected by the government, shows the care with which he planned his compositions. Cox's son, Allyn, who also became a successful mural painter, posed for the male figure. Cox's brother, J. D. Cox, a prominent civic leader in Cleveland, played an active role in the formation of the Cleveland Museum of Art. He gave the museum the three works by his brother that are in this exhibition.",
    "date": "1912",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1069",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Image: 15.9 x 37.8 cm (6 1/4 x 14 7/8 in.); Sheet: 30.3 x 50.8 cm (11 15/16 x 20 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "America"
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    "accession": "1916.1069"
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    "tec": "graphite",
    "tombstone": "Design for United States Currency, 1912. Kenyon Cox (American, 1856–1919). Graphite; image: 15.9 x 37.8 cm (6 1/4 x 14 7/8 in.); sheet: 30.3 x 50.8 cm (11 15/16 x 20 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. D. Cox, 1916.1069",
    "supportMaterials": [
        {
            "description": "cream(3) laid paper (discolored to yellow-cream)"
        }
    ],
    "collection": "DR - American 20th Century",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "signed, lower right, in graphite: Kenyon Cox. 1912 ; by artist, lower center, in graphite; First Sketch of Composition. ; by unknown hand, lower right, in graphite: 11 x 19 1/2   15 x 23 1/2"
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "\"Accessions.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 4, no. 2 (1917): 26-37.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 26",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136070"
        }
    ],
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    "creditline": "Gift of J. D. Cox",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:06:26.419000",
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