Lowell Daunt Collins was born in San Antonio. His
family moved to Houston when he was a child. He was a student of the
Houston Museum School of Art, with Ruth Uhler and Robert Pruesser,
the Art Students League with Harry Sternberg and Otis Dozier, at the
Colorado Springs Fine Art Center with Boardman Robinson and at The
Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. Beginning in the late
1940’s, he was a professor and instructor at both The University of
Houston and Rice University, all while teaching at The Houston
Museum of Fine Arts. His exhibition career began in 1946 when he
was a prize winner at the Houston Museum of Fine Art. His specialty
was pre-Columbian, African and Oriental Art.