Mayna Treanor Avent (1868–1959) was an American painter.
Early life Mayna Treanor Avent was born on September 17, 1868, in Nashville, Tennessee.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
Her father was Thomas O. Treanor and her mother, Mary Andrews Treanor. She grew up at Tulip Grove, an antebellum mansion opposite Andrew Jackson's The Hermitage. She studied painting at the Cincinnati Art Academy in Cincinnati, Ohio and at the Académie Julian in Paris, France for two years.Carroll Van West, A history of Tennessee arts: creating traditions, expanding horizons, Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, 2004, p. 104
Career
Avent taught painting in Nashville, and exhibited her oil and watercolour paintings in Massachusetts, South Carolina and Tennessee. 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.F. Carroll McMahan, Elkmont's Uncle Lem Ownby: Sage of the Smokies, The History Press, 2013, p. 58
Avent was a member of the Nashville Studio Club, the Nashville Artists Guild, and the Centennial Club.
Personal life and death In 1891, she married Frank Avent, a lawyer for the State Railroad Commissioner from Murfreesboro, Tennessee. They had a son, James Avent (1895–1995). Avent spent her last three years with her son in Sewanee, Tennessee. She died on January 2, 1959.
External links
Information archive about the Cabin Studio and the Artist
References