Background
She was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and studied at the Saint Louis Art School (where she won a three years" scholarship), and in Paris at the Académie Julian and under Carolus Duran.
She was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and studied at the Saint Louis Art School (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 Antoine Bourdelle). In April 1892, Low (then MacMonnies) was approached by Sarah Tyson Hallowell, agent for Bertha Palmer, the prime mover behind the Women"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. She became an associate of the National Academy of Design.