How impossible that one could ever become an artist! But then I came on Phil May, who combined quality with apparent facility. In his autobiography he wrote: "The more I poured over the intricate technical quality of these artists the more difficult did drawing appear. Deeply impressed by the work of Charles Keene, Linley Sambourne and Phil May, Low decided he wanted to become a cartoonist. His discipline was self-discipline." (2)Īs a young man he had discovered a pile of old copies of Punch Magazine in a second-hand bookshop in Christchurch. "He thus went into adolescence without the advantages and disadvantages of a peer group. His parents believed he had been weakened by "overstudy" and Low, aged eleven, was withdrawn from school. In 1902 his eldest brother died from peritonitis. His father's family had originally come from Fife in Scotland in the 1860s and his mother's from Dublin, Ireland, in 1850. David Low, the third son of four children of David Brown Low, a businessman, was born in Dunedin, New Zealand on 7th April 1891.
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