About Mayna Treanor Avent
Lived 1868 – 1959 (aged 90). Mayna Treanor Avent was an American painter, artist and painting.
Mayna Treanor Avent (1868–1959) was an American painter.
Early life Mayna Treanor Avent was born on September 17, 1868, in Nashville, Tennessee.
Her father was Thomas O. Treanor and her mother, Mary Andrews Treanor.
Career
Avent taught painting in Nashville, and exhibited her oil and watercolour paintings in Massachusetts, South Carolina and Tennessee.
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.
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American painter
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Mayna Treanor Avent was born on 17 September 1868 in Nashville.
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Mayna Treanor Avent died on 2 January 1959 in Sewanee.
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Mayna Treanor Avent was a painter, artist and painting.
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