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| The Sitting Room of Allie Tennant's Studio, circa 1939 with some of her favorite pieces |
In the
mid-1920s Allie Tennant built a studio located in the backyard of her family’s
home on Live Oak Street. Dallas architect Walter Sharp designed the studio. He
created an “Old English” building of the cottage style with a large work room
located on the northern end of the structure so placed to catch the best
natural light. The studio had "a vaulted ceiling, large north windows, and
had shelves and niches for her work lining the walls." It also sported a
large and gracious fireplace for winter heat. Tennant particularly liked the
design of the studio because of its large north window. “North light is liked
by all artists,” she once explained to a journalist interviewing her, “because
there is no sunshine with it.” This building would be her studio for the
remainder of her life, with all of her best-known work created there. She
displayed many of her pieces on pedestals around the sitting room located at
one end of the building.
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| Exterior of Allie Tennant's studio as it appears today |
