Mayna Treanor Avent
Mayna Treanor Avent (1868 — 1959) was an American painter.
Mayna Treanor Avent | |
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 Photo of Mrs. Avent c.1922 | |
| 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 AventMary Avent Adams |
| Parent(s) | Thomas O. Treanor Mary Andrews Treanor |
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
Avent 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]
Avent was a member of the Nashville Studio Club, the Nashville Artists Guild, and the Centennial Club.[1][2]
Personal life and 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). Avent spent her last three years with her son in Sewanee, Tennessee.[1][2] She died on January 2, 1959.[1][3]
References
- Tennessee Portrait Project
- The South on Paper: Line, Color and Light, Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 2000, p. 22
- 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