Brett at 10. oil.

In this portrait, Brett Cantrell, isn't happy. Expressing his discontent as only a ten year old can do, Cantrell had probably been sitting for his mother, Lois, and other members of Irma Cooks painting class for several hours.

He probably tolerated this "abuse" because (according to his mother) "the class adopted him as a pet".

The background is the white painted cinder block wall of the basement of the Cook's house on S. Fairview Ave.

Lois Bennett Cantrell '57
• Charter Member of the AGS

Active in AGS 1957-69; 1994-present

EDUCATION:

  • Limestone College
  • Studied under Irma Cook and Carrie Burns Brown

ORIGIN:

  • native South Carolinian

PERSONAL:

  • (1957) Charter member of The Spartanburg County Historical Association

  • Lois' husband Wallace worked at the downtown Post Office in Spartanburg with Helen Moseley, Francis Riser and Frank Coleman. Coleman introduced them.

  • Worked at the Spartanburg Waterworks (possibly the Waterworks building that Frank Collins designed?) when it was on Morgan Square

  • In the business world she is a private secretary

  • Hobbies were listed in Guild Calendar as swimming and early Americana