User:Musehist/Margaret "Peggy" Hall

Early Life
Margaret Tannahill Hall was born on May 22, 1910 and died on December 18, 1992

She was the daughter of Louis Edward Hall (8/4/1877-10/28/1952) and Eleanor Williams Hall (Born 27 April 1883 in Culpeper County, Virginia, USA, Died 19 Feb 1963 in Wilmington, New Hanover, North Carolina.)

Peggy Hall was one of a number of local Wilmingtonians who studied art with Elisabeth Chant.

Hall graduated from New Hanover High School, attended Sweet Briar College and studied at the Phillips Gallery Art School in DC.

Museum Career
“Her career in Wilmington began in 1940, when she worked for three years with the old Wilmington Museum or Art, which was a Federal Art Project. …She continued to be active in art activities through a subsequent gallery on Post Office Ally, and finally became director of St. John’s when it was started with a board of directors in 1962.”

Peggy Hall retired from the directorship of the St. John’s Art Museum on July 1, 1972.