page_title: Allyn Cox
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Allyn Cox / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Mural in the Cryptic Room of the George Washington Masonic National Memorial, painted by Allyn Cox.
context_page_description: Allyn Cox was an American artist known for his murals, including those he painted in the United States Capitol and the U. S. Department of State.
context_section_description: Cox apprenticed with his father, whom he worked with when working on murals for the Wisconsin State Capitol. His first solo mural may have been over the fireplace at the Windsor Public Library. Like his father, he served as the president of the National Society of Mural Painters.
  In 1953, he was hired to complete the frieze in the Capitol Rotunda, which had been originally started by Constantino Brumidi and left unfinished since the 1880s. He painted murals on many of the other walls in the building, including a depiction of the first landing on the moon in the Senate’s Brumidi Corridors of the Capitol. Starting in 1971, Cox designed and painted two of the three Cox Corridors in the Capitol, while the third was completed following his designs after his death.
  Some of his work may be seen at the George Washington Masonic National Memorial in Alexandria, Virginia. He also painted murals in houses owned by Anne (Mrs. William K.) Vanderbilt and Lincoln Ellsworth.
  He served as President of the National Society of Mural Painters from 1942 to 1946 and again from 1960 to 1963.
caption: Mural in the George Washington Masonic National Memorial
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