Mayna Treanor Avent
| Mayna Treanor Avent | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 17, 1868 Nashville, Tennessee |
| Died |
January 2, 1959 Sewanee, Tennessee |
| Education |
Art Academy of Cincinnati Académie Julian |
| Occupation | Painter |
| Spouse(s) | Frank Avent |
| Children | James Avent |
| Parent(s) |
Thomas O. Treanor Mary Andrews Treanor |
Mayna Treanor Avent (1868–1959) was an American painter.
Biography
Early life
Mayna Treanor Avent was born on September 17, 1868 in Nashville, Tennessee.[1][2][3]
Her father was Thomas O. Treanor and her mother, Mary Andrews Treanor.[1] She grew up at Tulip Grove, an antebellum mansion opposite Andrew Jackson's The Hermitage.[1][2] She studied painting at the Cincinnati Art Academy in Cincinnati, Ohio and at the Académie Julian in Paris, France for two years.[1][2][4]
Career
She taught painting in Nashville, and exhibited her oil and watercolour paintings in Massachusetts, South Carolina and Tennessee.[1][2] She often painted in what is now known as the Mayna Treanor Avent Studio on the Jake's Creek Trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Elkmont, Tennessee.[5]
She was a member of the Nashville Studio Club, the Nashville Artists Guild, and the Centennial Club.[1][2]
She spent her last three years with her son in Sewanee, Tennessee.[1][2]
Death
In 1891, she married Frank Avent, a lawyer for the State Railroad Commissioner from Murfreesboro, Tennessee.[1][2] They had a son, James Avent (1895–1995).
She died on January 2, 1959.[1][3]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Tennessee Portrait Project
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 The South on Paper: Line, Color and Light, Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 2000, p. 22
- 1 2 Lynn Barstis Williams, Imprinting the South: Southern Printmakers And Their Images of the Region, 1920s-1940s, Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2007, p. 46
- ↑ Carroll Van West, A history of Tennessee arts: creating traditions, expanding horizons, Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, 2004, p. 104
- ↑ F. Carroll McMahan, Elkmont's Uncle Lem Ownby: Sage of the Smokies, The History Press, 2013, p. 58