The Choir

Signed, l.r.
Oil on board
12-3/8 x 10-1/4 inches

Note:
Painted in March, 1934. This painting is a study for the artist’s Go Down Moses (1936) in the Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina.

Provenance:
Descended in the artist's family to the current owners

Exhibited:
New York, Marie Sterner Gallery, Hilda Belcher, Paintings and Watercolors, October 20 – November 2, 1934, no. 29
Lynchburg, Virginia, Lynchburg College, [one-person show], Autumn, 1935
Sweet Briar, Virginia, Sweet Briar College, [one-person show], Autumn, 1935
Washington, D.C., Arts Club of Washington, D.C., [one-person show], October, 1935
Castleton, Vermont, Castleton Teachers College [one-person show], September, 1960 (note: Miss Marcella Jackson – Head of the Art Department)
Burlington, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Hilda Belcher: A Retrospective, June 26 - October 2, 1994 (annotated checklist)

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