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Mary Harvey Tannahill (January 11, 1863 – June 21, 1951) was an American painter, printmaker, embroiderer and batik maker. A native of North Carolina, she spent much of her career in New York and New England. ==Life and career== Tannahill was born on the family plantation, "Kinderhook", in Warren County, North Carolina, the daughter of Robert and Sallie Jones Sims Tannahill; her father had served in the Confederate Army, and was a businessman as well, with connections in Petersburg, Virginia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tannahill, Mary Harvey )〕 The family moved to New York City in 1865. There, her father worked as a cotton factor, later serving for two years (1880–82) as president of the New York Cotton Exchange. He died in 1883, leaving behind eight children, of whom Mary was the eldest. The family home was at 44 Est 65th Street; they also kept a house in Englewood, New Jersey, and a summer home on Lake Mahopac, and frequently visited both Petersburg, Virginia and Warrenton, North Carolina, where other family members lived.〔〔 The family was close-knit; few of the children married, and none had surviving offspring.〔 Tannahill and her siblings were educated privately, and she early displayed an interest in art that was fostered and encouraged by her parents. She studied with various teachers, including Kenyon Cox, John Henry Twachtman, Henry Siddons Mowbray,〔Petteys, Chris, ''Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women artists born before 1900'', G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1985〕 J. Alden Weir, and Arthur Wesley Dow.〔 Her first publicly displayed works were watercolors painted on ivory and shown at the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters, which she later joined.〔 Prior to World War I Tannahill went to Europe to continue her study of art. In Germany she was assumed to be English, and suffered indignities in public such as being pushed off of sidewalks; consequently she decided to return to the United States.〔 She later studied with Blanche Lazzell and was thereafter associated with the artist’s colony at Provincetown, Massachusetts; she was eventually to spent over thirty summers at Provincetown, wintering in New York.〔 Tannahill, described as having been tall, blond, and striking in appearance in her youth,〔 never married. She was a Christian Scientist who favored suffrage for women. She spent the last years of her life in Warrenton. She was buried in Petersburg, at Blandford Cemetery.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mary Tannahill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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