Mayna Treanor Avent Explained

Mayna Treanor Avent
Birth Date:September 17, 1868
Birth Place:Nashville, Tennessee
Death Date:January 2, 1959 (Aged 90)
Death Place:Sewanee, Tennessee
Education:Art Academy of Cincinnati
Académie Julian
Occupation:Painter
Spouse:Frank Avent
Children:James Avent
Mary Avent Adams
Parents:Thomas O. Treanor
Mary Andrews Treanor

Mayna Treanor Avent (1868 — 1959) was an American painter.

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]

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.tnportraits.org/artists.htm Tennessee Portrait Project
  2. The South on Paper: Line, Color and Light, Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 2000, p. 22 https://books.google.com/books?id=Q5lWGS5V8aQC&pg=PA22
  3. 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 https://books.google.com/books?id=_1nrAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Mayna+Treanor+Avent%22
  4. [Carroll Van West]
  5. F. Carroll McMahan, Elkmont's Uncle Lem Ownby: Sage of the Smokies, The History Press, 2013, p. 58 https://books.google.com/books?id=3BGFIB5TDn4C&dq=%22Mayna+Treanor+Avent%22&pg=PA58