Lycius, Look Back, and Be Some Pity Shown
Will Hicock Low
1885
Medium
Gray and white gouache, with touches of brown gouache, on cream wood-pulp laminate board
Dimensions
16.5 × 34.8 cm (6 1/2 × 13 3/4 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
39854
About the Artist
Will Hicock Low · 1853–1932
Will Hicock Low (1853–1932) was an American painter and illustrator whose career bridged the Gilded Age and the early twentieth century, and who played an important role in bringing French academic ideals to American art. Born in Albany, New York, Low received his most formative training in Paris, where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and in the atelier of Carolus-Duran, the celebrated Fren...