Mary Fairchild Low

Mary Fairchild Low studied at Académie Julian and St. Louis School of Fine Arts. Training under Tony Robert-Fleury and Carolus-Duran is recorded. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is landscape painting. Work by Mary Fairchild Low is recorded in the collections of Musée Blanche Hoschedé-Monet and Princeton Art Museum.

• Name — Mary Fairchild MacMonnies Low • Birth Name — Mary Fairchild • Born — 1858 • Birthplace — New Haven, Connecticut • Died — 1946 • Place of death — Bronxville, New York • Field — Painting • Training — St. Louis School of Fine Arts Académie Julian

Mary Fairchild MacMonnies Low was born in 1858 in New Haven, Connecticut. She 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. She had her own studio at 11 Impasse du Maine, (now part of Musée Bourdelle). She married Frederick MacMonnies in 1888 and divorced him in 1909. She married Will H. Low that same year.

• Illustration — 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. These were to be the only murals by these two painters. MacMonnies Low also exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 Exposition. 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 Marseille 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.