 In April 1892, Low (then MacMonnies) was approached by Sarah Tyson Hallowell, agent for Bertha Palmer, the prime mover behind the Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, to paint one of the two mural tympana planned for the building's interior.The other was "Modern Woman", by Mary Cassatt.The topic of Low's mural was "Primitive Women" and it was by all accounts at the time deemed to be the more successful of the two.