GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Born in St. Louis, Allie Victoria Tennant moved to Texas as a small child and attended school in Dallas. Her father, Thomas R. Tennant, was a painter by avocation and a charter member of the New Orleans Art Association. She attended the Art Students League (ASL) in New York City in 1927-1928 and took classes in anatomy with George Bridgman and in sculpture with Edward MacCartan. She enrolled again in 1933 to study with the Viennese artist Eugene Steinhof. The Dallas Morning News interviewed Tennant in 1928 and she complimented the training she received at the ASL. She explained the school's cooperative atmosphere, saying that is was "run by students for students" and thus, "New ideas, which find difficulty of expression in other types of organizations, are here given the opportunity to develop."
Tennant maintained a studio in Dallas throughout her training in NYC and was a peripheral participant in the activities of Texas artists. In 1934 Tennant had achieved considerable recognition as a portrait sculptor and was elected to membership in the National Society of Sculptors. Her Negro Head (1935.57) was awarded the Kiest Purchase Prize at the Allied Arts Exhibition in 1935, and in 1936, she was commissioned to execute the nine-foot gilded figure of the "Tejas Warrior" placed over the entrance doorway of the Texas Centennial Hall of State building. The Centennial committee also hired her to produce reliefs for the Dallas Aquarium at Fair Park.
Her art appears in several additional Texas towns. In 1938, she completed two bronze memorials to state heroes: the James Butler Bonham Memorial in Bonham and the Jose Antonio Navarro Memorial in Corsicana. The Works Projects Administration funded her relief, Cattle, Oil, and Wheat, for the Post Office in Electra in 1940. She also produced numerous portrait busts, garden sculptures, and memorial plaques for public buildings, schools, and colleges. She was instrumental in the formation in 1943 of the Texas Sculptors Group and served as its president. She taught at the Dallas Art Institute and was active in many civic art circles and local organizations.
Adapted from
Rick Stewart, Lone Star Regionalism: The Dallas Nine and Their Circle (Austin: Texas Monthly Press), 190.
Additional source
Patricia D. Hendricks and Becky Duval Reese, A Century of Sculpture in Texas, 1889-1989 (Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, College of Fine Arts, The University of Texas at Austin, 1989).
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Confirmed note updated in GDrive. Tagged completed and moved GDoc to Queta folder. (1/24/2017)
Removed TMS tags as part of revision process because now has rule- 1933.23, 1935.57, 1952.16, 1994.181
Changed name to match ULAN- Allie Victoria Tennant
Added specific death date.
Added historical date- 1898 as alternate birth year. Specific birth date unknown.
Artist born- Saint Louis, Missouri
Trained- new York, NY- (1927-1928) Attended the Art Students' League where she took anatomy from George Bridgeman and sculpture from Edward McCartan.
Worked- Dallas, Texas
Removed the following suggested image due to time constraints.
DeWitt Ward (NYC), Allie Tennant in New York Studio with Tejas Warrior, 1935. Photograph from The Jerry Bywaters Collection on Art of the Southwest, Southern Methodist University, published on page 18 of Bywaters, Seventy-Five Years of Art in Dallas: The History of the Dallas Art Association and the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (1978), and page 45 of Patricia Hendricks, A Century of Sculpture in Texas, 1889-1989, Huntington Art Gallery, University of TX, Austin, 1989.
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Dallas Historical Society~Take a virtual tour of the Texas Hall of State and be sure to check out Tennant's Tejas Warrior in the Portico Tejas.
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Tennant's public endorsement of the Art Students League no doubt encouraged fellow Texas artists to study there. Dorothy Austin (whose sculptures are also represented in the DMA collection) made her way from Dallas to New York City to enroll at the ASL a year after Tennant.
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Born in St. Louis, Allie Victoria Tennant moved to Texas as a small child and attended school in Dallas. Her father, Thomas R. Tennant, was a painter by avocation and a charter member of the New Orleans Art Association. She attended the Art Students League (ASL) in New York City in 1927-1928 and took classes in anatomy with George Bridgman and in sculpture with Edward MacCartan. She enrolled again in 1933 to study with the Viennese artist Eugene Steinhof. The Dallas Morning News interviewed Tennant in 1928 and she complimented the training she received at the ASL. She explained the school's cooperative atmosphere, saying that is was "run by students for students" and thus, "New ideas, which find difficulty of expression in other types of organizations, are here given the opportunity to develop."
Tennant maintained a studio in Dallas throughout her training in NYC and was a peripheral participant in the activities of Texas artists. In 1934 Tennant had achieved considerable recognition as a portrait sculptor and was elected to membership in the National Society of Sculptors. Her Negro Head (1935.57) was awarded the Kiest Purchase Prize at the Allied Arts Exhibition in 1935, and in 1936, she was commissioned to execute the nine-foot gilded figure of the "Tejas Warrior" placed over the entrance doorway of the Texas Centennial Hall of State building. The Centennial committee also hired her to produce reliefs for the Dallas Aquarium at Fair Park.
Her art appears in several additional Texas towns. In 1938, she completed two bronze memorials to state heroes: the James Butler Bonham Memorial in Bonham and the Jose Antonio Navarro Memorial in Corsicana. The Works Projects Administration funded her relief, Cattle, Oil, and Wheat, for the Post Office in Electra in 1940. She also produced numerous portrait busts, garden sculptures, and memorial plaques for public buildings, schools, and colleges. She was instrumental in the formation in 1943 of the Texas Sculptors Group and served as its president. She taught at the Dallas Art Institute and was active in many civic art circles and local organizations.
Adapted from
Rick Stewart, Lone Star Regionalism: The Dallas Nine and Their Circle (Austin: Texas Monthly Press), 190.
Additional source
Patricia D. Hendricks and Becky Duval Reese, A Century of Sculpture in Texas, 1889-1989 (Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, College of Fine Arts, The University of Texas at Austin, 1989).
Fun Facts
Tennant's public endorsement of the Art Students League no doubt encouraged fellow Texas artists to study there. Dorothy Austin (whose sculptures are also represented in the DMA collection) made her way from Dallas to New York City to enroll at the ASL a year after Tennant.
Archival Resources
Web Resources
Dallas Historical Society~Take a virtual tour of the Texas Hall of State and be sure to check out Tennant's Tejas Warrior in the Portico Tejas.
Notes
This note was tagged #routed in June 2015 and Sue's revisions (in a Word doc created by ASG) have been applied to the note as of October 2015. As of January 2017 I am adding the #draft tag to this note so that it is harvested to Google Drive. Once I am sure that all pending TMS or Piction data entry is complete, I will remove the #routed tag, add the #complete tag, and move the Google Doc to Queta's folder so that it is not re-routed to Sue.
Confirmed note updated in GDrive. Tagged completed and moved GDoc to Queta folder. (1/24/2017)
Removed TMS tags as part of revision process because now has rule- 1933.23, 1935.57, 1952.16, 1994.181
Changed name to match ULAN- Allie Victoria Tennant
Added specific death date.
Added historical date- 1898 as alternate birth year. Specific birth date unknown.
Artist born- Saint Louis, Missouri
Trained- new York, NY- (1927-1928) Attended the Art Students' League where she took anatomy from George Bridgeman and sculpture from Edward McCartan.
Worked- Dallas, Texas
Removed the following suggested image due to time constraints.
DeWitt Ward (NYC), Allie Tennant in New York Studio with Tejas Warrior, 1935. Photograph from The Jerry Bywaters Collection on Art of the Southwest, Southern Methodist University, published on page 18 of Bywaters, Seventy-Five Years of Art in Dallas: The History of the Dallas Art Association and the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (1978), and page 45 of Patricia Hendricks, A Century of Sculpture in Texas, 1889-1989, Huntington Art Gallery, University of TX, Austin, 1989.
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