With its proximity to the cultural hub of New York City and its quieter suburban and rural landscapes, Connecticut was fertile ground for artists and writers in the period of Modernist movements between 1913 and 1979. Many of these cultural figures are well known through biographical and critical studies. Creative Places seeks to show how place played a significant role in creative work, and how in turn the artists and writers influenced communities in Connecticut.
Virginia Hart Low
Painting/Drawing
1902 – 1991
- Biography/Description of Work
Married to artist Sanford Low (see listing). She attended New Britain High School, Miss Wheeler’s School in Providence, RI, and graduated in 1925 from Smith College. She studied oil and watercolor painting at the Hartford Art School with Albertus Jones. When she was young, she often visited her cousin Martha Moore (see listing) in NYC, where she was studying art, and she met her husband there. They often painted together, at home, in Europe, or at Martha’s Vineyard. She exhibited in a 1939 watercolor show at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, and also at the New Britain Art League and the Old Sculpin Gallery in Edgartown, MA. In 1964 she joined the board of directors of the New Britain Museum of American Art.
- Sources view
- 'Women Artists of New Britain,' New Britain Museum of American Art (2001), UConn artitsts database.
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