Artist Mountain Studio, (painting).

Artist Mountain Studio, (painting).

Avent, Mayna Treanor, 1868-1959, painter.

Artist Mountain Studio, (painting).

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(Lower left:) MAYNA T. AVENT signed

This painting depicts Mrs. Avent's mountain artist studio, which was inside her rustic log cabin, built in the mid-1800s, and located near Elkmont in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The Avent Cabin is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Architecture interior -- Studio

Object -- Written Matter -- Book

Object -- Written Matter -- Magazine

Object -- Art Tool

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Alexander, Hudson & Edna, Franklin, Tennessee

Formerly in the collection of Alexander, T. H., until 2008.

This painting was a gift from Mayna Treanor Avent to the owner's grandfather T. H. Alexander (1891-1941), a syndicated newspaper columnist whose column, "I Reckon So" was published in several southern newspapers including the Nashville Tennessean, the Memphis Commercial-Appeal, the Knoxville Journal, the Atlanta Constitution, the Birmingham Age-Herald, and the Montgomery Advertiser. The artist and T. H. Alexander were friends and used to spend the summers at Elkmont in the Great Smoky Mountains. T. H. Alexander's summer cabin was located just above the Avent cabin along Jakes Creek. The painting was a gift and a "thank you" for a column written about the artist. On the back of the painting, the artist had started to paint a portrait, but not quite finished it. The portrait, thought to be one of the artist's grandchildren, depicts a young boy in a white sailor suit with a red collar.

The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.

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