Mary Donelson

Artist Details

• First Name Mary
• Middle Name Hooper
• Maiden Name Donelseon
• Alternate Name(s) Mary Hooper Jones Mary Hooper Donelson Jones Mary Hooper Jones Stevens  
• Surname Donelson
• Spouse’s Full Name William Ross Stevens (?-June 1, 1980)
• Previous Spouse(s) Philip Trent Jones (1898-1961), married December 1936
• Names and Birth Years of Children Jean Stvens Fuller William Ross Stevens, Jr.
• Birth Date January 3, 1906
• Birth Place Nashville, Tennessee
• Death Date February 27, 2000
• Death Place Nashville, Tennessee
• Residence(s) “Cleveland Hall” 4041 Old Hickory Blvd., Hermitage, Tennessee
• Active In Nashville, Tennessee
• Categories Painter-Oil, Sculptor
• Training student of Sarah Ward Conley, Nashville, Tennessee
  Vanderbilt University
  ?-1929: Art Institute of Chicago
  student of Albin Polasek and Emil Zettler
  student of Guy Pène DuBois, New York, New York
  
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History June 14-July 15, 1928: Annual Exhibition of Student Work, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: sculpture composition
  
  June 11-July 7, 1929: Annual Exhibition of Student Work, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Standing Nude-Male; Portrait Bust
  
  January 30-March 9, 1930: Fourth Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Sedgwick Memorial Medal
  
  1931:  Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
  
  1934:  Southern States Art League
  
  1938: National Academy of Design, New York, New York
  
  1945: Nashville Museum of Art
  
  1945: Ward Belmont College
  
  February 7-?, 1950:  Centennial Club, Nashville, Tennessee; Mrs. Gilbert S. Merritt, oil on canvas; Portia La Bruen, oil on canvas; First Lutheran Church, oil on canvas [church in Nashville, Tennessee]; Agnes Donelson, oil ln canvas; Mrs. Albert Hill Jr.,  oil on canvas; Gilbert and Gilbert Merritt, Jr., oil on canvas; Sarah Hicks Taylor, oil on canvas; study of artist’s father; Miller Turner; study of Leonette; study of Lafayette; Portrait of a Weary Dancer, oil on canvas; 2 additional paintings and 3 sculptures
  
  Centennial Club
  
  Nashville Art Guild
  
  National Academy of Design
  
  Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
  
  Southern States Art League Annual
  
  Studio Club
  
  Tennessee State Fair
• Collections Davidson County Chancery Court
  
  Division 1 of Criminal Court, Nashville, Tennessee
  
  Tennessee State Capitol
  
  University of  Tennessee
• Memberships Nashville Art Guild
  
  Nashville Studio Club
  
   
• Awards 1928:  Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1928: Procter & Gamble
  
  1929: Public Health Association
• Biography Parents:   John (July 9, 1874-July 12, 1952) and Elizabeth (“Betty”) Menees Hooper (1875-1963) Donelson
  
  descendant of Col. John Donelson
  
  Siblings:  John VII  (July 9, 1901-June 13, 1975) ; children were Agnes Scaright, John VIII, William Stockley
  
  Leonard Hooper