Mary Fairchild MacMonnies Low (1858–1946), born in New Haven, Connecticut[1][2] was an American painter who specialized in landscapes, genre paintings, and portraits.
American painter
Mary Fairchild MacMonnies Low
Self Portrait
Born
Mary Fairchild
1858(1858)
New Haven, Connecticut
Died
1946 (aged87–88)
Bronxville, New York
Nationality
American
Education
St. Louis School of Fine Arts Académie Julian
Knownfor
Painting
Spouse(s)
Frederick MacMonnies
(m.1888–1909)
Will H. Low
(m.1909)
Biography
Mary Fairchild MacMonnies Low studied at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts (where she won a three years' scholarship), and in Paris at the Académie Julian and under Carolus Duran.[1] She had her own studio at 11 Impasse du Maine, (now part of Musée Bourdelle).[3][4]
Primitive Woman Decoration for the Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition 1893
In April 1892, Low (then MacMonnies) was approached by Sarah Tyson Hallowell, agent for Bertha Palmer, the prime mover behind the Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, to paint one of the two mural tympana planned for the building's interior. The other was Modern Woman, by Mary Cassatt. The topic of Low's mural was Primitive Women and it was by all accounts at the time deemed to be the more successful of the two.[6] These were to be the only murals by these two painters.[7] MacMonnies Low also exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 Exposition.[8]
She is represented in the Museum of Rouen, France, where she won a gold medal in 1903 and again in 1911. She also won a gold medal at Dresden in 1902, at Marseilles in 1905, and the Julia Shaw prize of the Society of American Artists in 1902. She became an associate of the National Academy of Design.[9][10][11][12][13]
Gathering Apples, 1866, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Gathering Flowers, 1890, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
The Breeze, 1895, In the Nursery-Giverny Studio, 1897–98, and C'est la Fete a Bebe, 1879–98, Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, Illinois
Five O'Clock Tea (1891), Sheldon Swope Art Museum. This painting, also known as Tea at Fresco was exhibited at the Chicago Columbian Exposition, where "both the picture and the artist received favorable critical attention."[14]
‘’Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World’s Fair’’, National Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., 1993 p. 189
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Mary Fairchild MacMonnies Low". New International Encyclopedia (1sted.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
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