Christine Herter Kendall

[2] Christine Herter studied art in New York and in Paris before enrolling at Yale University, from which she earned a BA in 1915.

Among her Yale instructors was painter William Sergeant Kendall, with whom she began a romantic relationship.

[3] In 1921, Kendall divorced his wife, painter Margaret Weston Stickney, and left his three daughters.

There they built a large house (completed 1924), with an artist's studio at each end, and named it Garth Newel ("New Hearth").

[5] Her husband died in 1938, and she remained active in the local community, cofounding the Bath County Regional Art Show in 1964.