Louise King Cox (1865-1945)
- Louise Howland King Cox (1865-1945)
- Blue and White, 1904
- Oil on canvas
- 50 x 34 inches
- Signed Louise Cox and dated 1904, lower left
Exhibited: Carnegie Institute, Ninth Annual Exhibition, 1904
Blue and White depicts Cox's daughter Caroline, born in 1898, in a white dress with a lace collar. The young girl sits to the side of a blue chair accented with gold. She is positioned on the chair as if to share the seat with another child. A formal portrait photograph of the Cox children taken around the same time captures Caroline in the same white dress. Just as in the painting, she is positioned to accommodate another child. In this case, her elder brother who is seated beside her.
In 1904, Cox’s Blue and White was exhibited at the Ninth Annual Exhibition of the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. The painting was illustrated in the exhibition catalogue and reproduced in The Pittsburgh Gazette on Dec 1, 1904.
