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} Allyn Cox (June 5, 1896 - September 26, 1982) born in New York City, painted many of the walls in the US Capitol, including murals of scenes from US history.

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.

He studied at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League of New York, and at the American Academy in Rome.

He apprenticed with his father, the well known American Painter Kenyon Cox, whom he worked with when working on murals for the Wisconsin State Capitol.

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