# The Progress of Civilization: The Forge, Commerce, and Education (mural study, State Capitol, Des Moines, Iowa)

- By: Kenyon Cox (born Warren, OH 1856-died New York City 1919)
- Date: 1905-1906
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 24 x 15 1/8 in. (61.0 x 38.4 cm.)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Allyn Cox
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=5879)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/3cf97154189b542f69315ed310aec6d1.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)