He Admitted He Got an Entirely New Slant on My Stuff

Son of landscape painter Milton H. Lowell, Orson Lowell was encouraged as a child to pursue a career as an artist, studying at the Art Institute of Chicago where he taught later in his life. Lowell established his reputation as an illustrator in his biting political and social satire, but in some instances, such as in this drawing, the work rests on the sheer humor of an imagined situation.

This illustration by Lowell is one of a series of four pen and ink drawings of people looking at art in a gallery. It depicts a man in a frock coat leaning backwards as he gazes at paintings hung from a sloped wall with a caption below, “He admitted he got an entirely new slant on my stuff.”