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{{short description|American art historian}}
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'''Catharine Elizabeth Bean Cox''' (1865–1964) was born in Iowa into a [[Religious Society of Friends|Quaker]] family on August 11, 1865.
She received a BA from [[Bryn Mawr College]] in 1889. In 1891, she married Isaac Milton Cox. In 1898, she and her family moved to Hawaii, spurred by Isaac's poor health.<ref name="Bean">Bean, Bernie, 1970</ref>  She taught at [[Punahou School]] and helped [[Anna Rice Cooke]] research and catalog her art collection, which became the [[Honolulu Museum of Art]]. Cox served as director of the [[Honolulu Museum of Art]] from 1927 to 1928.  She died on December 7, 1964, aged 99.<ref name="Bean"/>
The [[Catharine E. B. Cox Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts]] was established in her honor in 1985 by her grandchildren [[Charles Shipley Cox]] of [[La Jolla, California]], Doak C. Cox of [[Honolulu]] and Richard H. Cox of Honolulu.
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==References==
* Bean, Bernie, ''The Life and Family of John Bean of Exeter and his Cousins'', Seattle, John Bean of Exeter Family Association, 1970.
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