Arthur William Hall, painter and printmaker, was born in Bowie, Texas in October 1889 and was raised in Virginia and Oklahoma. In 1911, Hall used his summer vacation to study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He returned to the school in 1915 for formal training which was interrupted after two and one-half years when the United States entered World War I. Hall joined the U.S. Army was stationed in France. After receiving an honorable discharge, Hall returned to the U.S. in 1919 and traveled, visiting much of eastern seaboard before making his way west to New Mexico and Arizona. He settled in El Dorado, Kansas, worked as a court stenographer, and, in 1922, married artist and fellow Art Institute student Norma Bassett. They traveled for two years throughout Europe, furthering their art studies in England and France. Among Hall’s mentors was Ernest S. Lumsden, whose style would greatly influence him throughout his career. In 1942, the Halls moved into the former home of artist Gerald Cassidy in Santa Fe, New Mexico. They purchased an estate in the village of Alcalde, New Mexico in 1950 and turned it into an art school and studio. The Halls established themselves as artists and art patrons in both Santa Fe and Taos, Hall was a member of and exhibited with the Society of American Etchers, the Chicago Society of Etchers, the New York Society of Etchers, the California Society of Etchers, the Prairie Print Makers, the Southern Printmakers, and the Print Makers Society of California. He also exhibition in the Midwestern Artists’ Exhibition in Kansas City from 1924 to 1933. His work was included in exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institute, the Library of Congress, the California State Library, and la Bibliothèque nationale de France. The work of Arthur William Hall is represented in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; and the Wichita Art Museum, Kansas. After Norma's death in 1957, Hall took and extended sketching trip, touring Spain, Portugal, and Morocco. He remarried in 1963 and relocated to Albuquerque, where he continued to paint until his death on February 12, 1981.