Mary Chenoweth’s passport must have looked as abstract as her art.
The groundbreaking Colorado Springs modernist indulged her wanderlust throughout her life, up until a few years before she died at 80 in 1999 in Sidney, Neb., where she moved after retiring from a 30-year career as an art educator at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and Colorado College.
She traveled the world, often taking cargo liners to Europe, North Africa, the Mediterranean and southeast Asia. And she didn’t just visit once and cross the spots off her list; she visited places repeatedly, even living for months at a time in locales such as Morocco and western Australia. Those extensive travels often influenced her work…