Frontispiece for "A Lover's Diary," by Gilbert Parker

Frontispiece for "A Lover's Diary," by Gilbert Parker
Frontispiece for "A Lover's Diary," by Gilbert Parker

Frontispiece for "A Lover's Diary," by Gilbert Parker

Date1894
Artist (American painter, illustrator, muralist 1853–1932)
Illustration Citation"From A Lover's Diary" by Gilbert Parker, in McClure's Magazine, July 1894; reprinted in A Lover's Diary: Songs in Sequence, by Gilbert Parker (Cambridge and Chicago: Stone and Kimball, 1894).
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions28 3/4 × 18 in. (73 × 45.7 cm)
frame: 32 1/4 × 22 in. (81.9 × 55.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Edmund Clegg, Jr., 1978
Object number1978-669
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextWhile Will Low was primarily a painter and muralist, his illustrations reflect the classical idealism of the American Renaissance style in vogue in the 1890s. This canvas was exhibited as a painting at the National Academy of Design in 1895 and won the Lotos Club award that year.

Gilber Parker was a Canadian-born novelist and politician, known for his dramatic and historic Canadian stories. A Lover's Diary was written when Parker was 23. He moved to England in 1889 and later served in Parliament.