Mina Lowry was an American artist who made a name for herself in New York as a portrait painter, and her studio in West 57th street in the Rodin Studios, was a center of attraction for visiting Buffalonians who are interested in art. Miss Lowry, during her profesional life in her home city, was noted for her lovely flower paintings. She studied with Florence J. Bach, and won first price for modeling at the Albright Art School. However, her one great desire was to pain protraits, and going to New York she studied at the Grand Central School for Fine Arts for five years, with the result that for three successive years she won gold medals at the exhibitions at the Grand Central Galleries.