Mary Hannell

Artist Details

• First Name Mary
• Middle Name Hazel
• Maiden Name Johnson
• Surname Hannell
• Spouse’s Full Name Vaino "Vin" M.S. Hannell (1895-2002) Finnish-American artist married December 31, 1923
• Birth Date December 31, 1895
• Birth Place Illinois
• Death Date February 6, 2002
• Death Place Oregon
• Residence(s) LaGrange, Illinois
  
  Hull House, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1930s: moved to Furnessville, Indiana
  
  1988: moved to a mountain about 18 miles from Ashland, Oregon
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
  
  1930s: Furnessville, Indiana
• Categories Block Printer, Ceramicist, Painter-Oil, Watercolorist
• Training School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois                   
  The Emma Church School of Art, Chicago, Illinois
  
• Relevant Travel 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
• Exhibitions History 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
• Collections Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana
  
  Pines Village Retirement Communities, Valparaiso, Indiana
• Memberships No-Jury Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Chicago Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Prairie Club, Chicago, Illinois
• Archive(s) Hazel Hannell papers, 1934-1985, Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C.
• Other Occupation(s) 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
• Biography father had her take secretarial studies
  
  friend of Jens Jensen