An unframed, but matted ink on paper drawing by American artist Orson Byron Lowell (1871-1956). It depicts a man and woman taking in the state of their messy parlour. The man holds a golf club in his right hand, possibly the perpetrator of this scene. It is signed by the artist in the bottom right quadrant. 

Dimensions: 26.5h x 21w inches

Orson Lowell was an American artist best known for his work often featured in magazines. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and later moved to New York City in 1893 to begin his career. In 1905, he found enough success to buy a home in New Rochelle, New York. Shortly thereafter it became an art colony after Norman Rockwell, Edward Penfield, and others moved into the neighborhood. By 1907, he was nationally recognized for his cartoons with a social messages featured in LIFE, Cosmopolitan, Ladies' Home Journal, Metropolitan Life, The Saturday Evening Post, Scribner's, Vogue, and Woman's Home Companion. Following his passing in 1956, former president of the New Rochelle Art Association, Fell Sharp said, “Mr. Lowell did for American society what Frederick Remington did for the Southwest and Toulouse-Lautrec did for the music halls of Paris. He was an artist with a reporter’s nose for a good story."

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Overall good antique condition. There is handling wear around the window mat. the worst of it along the top margin. The film glazing is also missing, so there is handling wear visible on the drawing. Under blacklight, there are white highlights across the painting that glow. However they appear to intentionally placed by the artist rather than splashed stains. Please see photos.