{"id":13791,"date":"2020-05-05T09:48:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T13:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?p=13791"},"modified":"2023-03-31T13:14:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T17:14:43","slug":"chenoweth-hall-1908-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/2020\/05\/05\/chenoweth-hall-1908-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"Chenoweth Hall (1908-1999)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chenoweth Hall was a musician, sculptor, writer, painter, and art professor who has over a dozen pieces in Bates College Museum of Art\u2019s collection. Hall was truly a woman of the arts, having played violin in professional groups, teaching art at University of Maine- Machias, publishing a novel, and writing an opera\/ballet. Throughout her life, Hall performed with the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, Rossano String Quartet, and later in life the Brunswick Orchestra in Georgia. She wrote a novel, The Crow in the Spruce<\/em>, which was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1946. In the 1950s, Hall wrote the ballet and opera, The Stone, <\/em>which was inspired by the Stone of Scone being taken from Westminster Abbey by four students from the University of Glasgow in 1950. In 1968 Hall became an artist in residence and then a professor at the University of Maine, Machias, where she taught for ten years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Hall moved to Maine in the early 1940s, she embraced Maine life in the coastal town, Prospect, a locale which is depicted in several of her works in the museum’s collection. The Museum received some of her works because of her friendship with the artist Marsden Hartley, who had a love for Bates College\u2019s intellectual and spiritual kinship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n