Tail-Peice - The History of the Book
Will Hicock Low
c. 1888
Medium
Charcoal, with black ink, heightened with touches of white gouache, on cream wood-pulp laminate board (discolored to tan)
Dimensions
22.6 × 35.9 cm (8 15/16 × 14 3/16 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
39908
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...