Lillian Hall

Artist Details

• First Name Lillian
• Middle Name E.
• Surname Hall
• Birth Date May 15, 1905
• Birth Place Waukegan, Illinois
• Death Date June 26, 2000
• Death Place Valparaiso, Indiana
• Residence(s) Chicago, Illinois
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
• Categories Draftsman, Linoleum Cut, Muralist, Painter-Oil, Printmaker
• Training 1948: BS: Illinois Institute of Technology, Institute of Design, Chicago, Illinois
  1950s: DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois; graduate work
  Metropolitan Art School, New York, New York
  Gloucester, Massachusetts
  
• Exhibitions History 1940:  National Art Week Exhibit, 57th Group, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1941: The Second New York Exhibition by Members of the Chicago Society of Artists, The Riverside Museum, New York, New York: Aldine Square, oil on canvas, 1938
  
  Chicago Society of Artists exhibitions
  
  1952:  Furnessville, Indiana
  
  October 1, 2012-January 14, 2013: Skirting Convention: Illinois Women Artists, 1840-1940, Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois; Composition No. 11, gouache, watercolor, collage on paper, 1940s
  
  February 10-March 2013: Skirting Convention: Illinois Women Artists, 1840-1940, Quincy Art Center, Quincy, Illinois; Composition No. 11, gouache, watercolor, collage on paper, 1940s
• Collections National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
  
  Richard Norton Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
• Memberships Chicago Society of Artists; 1944: treasurer; helps create their popular annual blockprint calendar starting 1937; 1952 Secretary
• Other Occupation(s) WPA/FAP artist
  
  circa 1936: Assistant to Beatrice Levy, director of WPA Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Teacher, Institute of Design, Chicago, Illinois
  
  teacher, Chicago Academy of Art, Chicago Park District, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Director of Weaving Center, Chicago Park District, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Teacher, private classes at her studio