Mary Hannell

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  • Mary
  • Hazel
  • Johnson
  • Hannell
  • Vaino "Vin" M.S. Hannell (1895-2002) Finnish-American artist married December 31, 1923
  • December 31, 1895
  • Illinois
  • February 6, 2002
  • Oregon
  • LaGrange, Illinois

    Hull House, Chicago, Illinois

    1930s: moved to Furnessville, Indiana

    1988: moved to a mountain about 18 miles from Ashland, Oregon
  • Chicago, Illinois

    1930s: Furnessville, Indiana
  • Block Printer, Ceramicist, Painter-Oil, Watercolorist
  • School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois                   
    The Emma Church School of Art, Chicago, Illinois
  • weekend visits to Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore with other artists: Fred Biesel, Frances Strain, Harriet Rex Smith, Jens Jensen

    1928: Paris and Finland with Frances Strain and Fred Biesel

    1980s: spent winters in Ajijic, Mexico
  • 1920s-1930s: No-Jury Society of Artists, Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    The Ten, Marshall Field Galleries, Chicago, Illinois

    1931: Exhibition of Religious Art by Artists of Chicago and Environs, Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois
  • Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana

    Pines Village Retirement Communities, Valparaiso, Indiana
  • No-Jury Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois

    Chicago Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois

    Prairie Club, Chicago, Illinois
  • Hazel Hannell papers, 1934-1985, Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C.
  • designed chintzes and wallpapers for Marshall Field's department store

    Hull House Kilns, commercial pottery, Chicago, Illinois

    ran pottery in Furnessville, Indiana

    taught watercolor painting at The Clearing Folk School, Ellison Bay, Wisconsin

    supported women's suffrage

    environmental activist
  • father had her take secretarial studies

    friend of Jens Jensen