Noyes Capehart (Long) was born in Nashville, Tennessee, on December 13, 1933.  He grew up in the small Nashville suburb of Old Hickory, a small factory town on the Cumberland River.  Following high school, he attended the University of the South (Sewanee), before transferring to Auburn University to pursue a major in illustration.  After completing the degree program in 1958, he moved to New York City where he took a position as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  He remained with the museum until mid-December of 1960 when a temporary teaching offer from Auburn prompted his return to the South.

Knowing that a master’s level degree would be required for a college level teaching career, he entered the graduate program at the University of Missouri in 1963, majoring in printmaking.  He remained at the university following the completion of his graduate studies as an instructor.  In 1967 he assumed a teaching position at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.  Appalachian State University lured Noyes to Boone,  North Carolina with a teaching position in 1969, and he remained with the university until his retirement in 1997.

Noyes has been exhibiting in adjudicated exhibitions at regional, state, and national levels for nearly fifty years.  His works have been shown in several museums in the United States, including the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC, The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, The Brooklyn Museum, The Mint Museum in Charlotte, and The North Carolina Museum in Raleigh.

Since the early 1970’s, Noyes has also completed numerous short stories, two novels (Potato Eaters and Red Sea), and a novella (Ghenna’s Child).

Sources:
The artist's website
Information submitted by Sebastian Capehart Herrera