Frederick et Mary MacMonnies “Mabel Conkling“ 1904, oil on canvas, 219,7 x 114,3 cm (Frederick MacMonnies)

Frederick William
MacMonnies
Brooklyn
1863-1937
New York

Mary Louise Fairchild
MacMonnies (puis Low)
New Haven,
Connecticut
1858-1946
Bronxville, New York

 1880-1883 Mary Louise Fairchild attends at the Saint Louis School of Fine Arts in Missouri.

 1880-1884 Frederick William MacMonnies stusies in New york with the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

 1885-1888 Mary Louise Fairchild is awarded a three-year scholarship. She moves to Paris and enrolls in the Académie Julian.

 1886 After two years at the Royal Académie of Fine Arts in Munich, MacMonnies attends the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he works in the studio of Jean Alexandre Falguière.

 1888 Mary Louise Fairchild et Frederick William MacMonnies marry and share a studio in Montparnasse.