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Mary Fairchild MacMonnies Low
Self Portrait
Born

Mary Fairchild


1858 (1858)
New Haven, Connecticut
Died1946 (aged 87–88)
Bronxville, New York
NationalityAmerican
EducationSt. Louis School of Fine Arts
Académie Julian
Known forPainting
Spouses

Frederick MacMonnies

(m. 1888⁠–⁠1909)

Will H. Low

(m. 1909)

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.

Biography[edit]

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]

She married Frederick MacMonnies in 1888 and divorced him in 1909.[5] She married Will H. Low that same year.

Chicago mural[edit]

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]

Paintings[edit]

Mary Fairchild MacMonnies, Mademoiselle Sarah Hallowell, 1886

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Low, Mary Fairchild". Union List of Artist Names. J. Paul Getty Trust. Retrieved March 23, 2013.
  • ^ "MacMonnies Low, Mary". Lafayette Database of American Art. Louvre Museum. Retrieved March 23, 2013.
  • ^ Collection. terraamericanart
  • ^ Oxford Index, Grove Encyclopedia of American art
  • ^ "Terra Foundation for American Art: Collections". 72.9.254.50. Archived from the original on 2013-12-20.
  • ^ Weinmann, Jeanne Madeline, The Fair Women, Academy Chicago, 1981, pp. 191–99, 316–19
  • ^ Van Hook, Bailey, The Virgin & the Dynamo: Public Murals in American Architecture 1893-1917, Ohio University Press, Athens, 2003 p. 22
  • ^ Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  • ^ incollect.com
  • ^ magazine-archives.wustl.edu
  • ^ mmefineart.com
  • ^ fulcrumgallery.com
  • ^ bronxvillehistoricalconservancy.org
  • ^ ‘’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
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