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Mary Low (surrealist)
Mary Low may refer to: * Mary Caffrey Low, American librarian and educator * Mary Fairchild MacMonnies Low Mary Fairchild MacMonnies Low (1858–1946), born in New Haven, Connecticut, New Haven, Connecticut was an American painter who specialized in landscape art, landscapes, Genre art, genre paintings, and portraits. Biography Mary Fairchild M ..., American painter See also * Mary Lowe (other) {{hndis, Low, Mary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Caffrey Low
Mary Caffrey Low Carver (March 22, 1850 - March 4, 1926) was an American librarian and educator. She was one of the five founding members of the Sigma Kappa sorority and a pioneering advocate for women's education, along with being an accomplished library scientist and writer. Founding of Sigma Kappa Sorority Colby College, in Waterville, Maine, became the first New England college to admit women along with men when Low became the first female student at Colby in 1871, and for two years remained the only one. Eventually she was joined by four other women, and along with Elizabeth Gorham Hoag, Ida Fuller, Frances Elliott Mann Hall and Louise Helen Coburn, Low created Sigma Kappa sorority at Colby on November 9, 1874. Low was the first woman to appear on the rolls of Sigma Kappa and the first to preside over an initiation. She was also the first woman to be invited to join the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society. As the only women enrolled in the college, the five of them foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Fairchild MacMonnies Low
Mary Fairchild MacMonnies Low (1858–1946), born in New Haven, Connecticut, New Haven, Connecticut was an American painter who specialized in landscape art, landscapes, Genre art, genre paintings, and portraits. 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, Carolus Duran. She had her own studio at 11 Impasse du Maine, (now part of Musée Bourdelle). She married Frederick William MacMonnies, Frederick MacMonnies in 1888 and divorced him in 1909. She married Will Hicok Low, Will H. Low that same year. Chicago mural In April 1892, Low (then MacMonnies) was approached by Sarah Tyson Hallowell, agent for Bertha Palmer, the prime mover behind the The Woman's Building (Chicago), Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, to paint one of the two mural Tympanum (architecture), tympana planned for the building' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
