Chenoweth Hall died April 19, 1999, in an Ellsworth health-care facility at the age of 90.

She had endured the debilitating stresses of Alzheimer’s disease for the last 10 years. She was born in New Albany, Ind. (twin city to Louisville, Ky.), on Nov. 2, 1908, the eldest daughter of Nellie (Smith) and George W. Hall. She was predeceased by her parents and younger sister, Jane Hall Durbin.

Chenoweth left New Albany to attend the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wis., and received her degree in musicology. After graduation she moved to New York City. Her first job was teaching music in New Jersey elementary schools. She went on to become a copywriter in New York City advertising agencies, eventually handling such well-known fashion accounts as The Cotton Shop, Lily Daché and Helena Rubenstein. During her New York years, she played violin in the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, and with the Rossano String Quartet, and monitored courses at The New School for Social Research, while working on a thesis on "The InterRelationship of the Arts" at Columbia University.

In 1939, she moved to Prospect Harbor to devote her time to writing, painting and sculpture. Her paintings and sculpture soon began to be shown in numerous Maine exhibits, and eventually included exhibits in Boston, Hobe Sound, Fla., Stonington, Conn., Lincoln, Mass., and New York City and Philadelphia.

In 1946, her novel, "The Crow on the Spruce," was published by Houghton Mifflin. In 1968, she collaborated with Berenice Abbott on "A Portrait of Maine," a definitive study of text and photographs. In 1970, her 4½-ton granite memorial sculpture to Pierre Monteux was dedicated in Hancock.

In 1968, she became artist in residence and associate professor of art at the University of Maine, Machias, a post she served for 10 years. With her retirement in 1978, she began to spend six months of the year in Jekyll Island, Ga., where she became an active member of the Art Association, the Mozart Society, and played violin in the Brunswick (Georgia) Symphony Orchestra.

For her achievement in the arts, she is listed in "Who’s Who in America," "Who’s Who in New England" and "Who’s Who in American Women."

She leaves many close friends, acquaintances and former students, whose lives were touched by her warmth, generosity of spirit, and her enthusiasm for the arts, for nature and for living; she leaves the home which she shared with Miriam Colwell in Prospect Harbor for more than 50 years.

In September 1996, a tribute exhibit of her paintings and sculpture was held at the Art Galleries, University of Maine, Machias, and from May 18 to July 3, 1998, a collection of her watercolors was shown at Carnegie Hall, University of Maine, Orono; in late May 1999, a solo exhibit of her watercolors will open at The Gleason Gallery in Camden.