Adelaide Mahan

Bibb County native Adelaide Mahan (1872-1959) was an artist who explored many mediums, but she was best known for her oil and watercolor paintings. She studied art in New York and Massachusetts during her formative years but lived most of her life in Alabama.

Person seated on a stool beside an easel along a dirt roadway, painting a scene of houses and trees, with a two-story house featuring a columned porch visible in the background.

Adelaide E. Mahan Collection, Mike and Linda Mahan, conservators.

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Bibb County

Bibb County

Adelaide E. Mahan

Adelaide E. Mahan

Person seated on a stool beside an easel along a dirt roadway, painting a scene of houses and trees, with a two-story house featuring a columned porch visible in the background.