{{Short description|American artist (1879–1965)}} {{Infobox person | birth_date = {{Birth date|1879|05|30}} | birth_place = Rising Sun, Indiana | death_date = {{Death year and age|1965|1879}} | education = Cincinnati Art Academy }} '''Thomas Victor Hall''' <ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZdICm_W8xKwC&q=Tom+Victor+Hall+artist&pg=PA367 |title=Artists in Ohio, 1787-1900: A Biographical Dictionary - Mary Sayre Haverstock, Jeannette Mahoney Vance, Brian L. Meggitt, Jeffrey Weidman, Oberlin College. Library - Google Books |isbn=9780873386166 |accessdate=2012-10-04|last1=Weidman |first1=Jeffrey |year=2000 |publisher=Kent State University Press }}</ref> (T. Victor Hall; May 30, 1879 – 1965) was an American illustrator, painter and sculptor.
==Biography== Hall was born in Rising Sun, Indiana, 1879. He attended the Cincinnati Art Academy in the early 1900s where he studied with Frank Duveneck. Later he moved to <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/biography.aspx?artist=110829 |title=Tom Hall - Artist, Fine Art, Auction Records, Prices, Biography for Tom Victor Hall |publisher=Askart.com |date= |accessdate=2012-10-04}}</ref> Peekskill, New York and pursued a career as an illustrator. In 1919 he joined Louis C. Pedlar, Inc. Pedlar initiated the Art Director's Club in 1920.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.adcglobal.org/adc/history/ |title=Art Directors Club / Our History |publisher=Adcglobal.org |date= |accessdate=2012-10-04}}</ref> Hall's work appeared in many magazines and books of the day, including the ''St. Nicholas magazine'', ''The Argosy'' and ''The Youth's Companion Magazine''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/c79.htm#A3486 |title=Artists |publisher=Philsp.com |date= |accessdate=2012-10-04}}</ref> Thomas Victor Hall's illustrations also appeared in ''All-Story Weekly'', of which the most noteworthy is a series for Edgar Rice Burroughs' ''At The Earth's Core''. .<ref>{{cite web|author1=von Horst |author2=David Critchfield |author3=Dave Critchfield |url=http://www.bouncepage.com/Pellucidar/pellucidar1.html |title=At the Earth's Core |publisher=Bouncepage.com |date= |accessdate=2012-10-04}}</ref>
Hall was well known as a war illustrator. Robert Rotter and T. Victor Hall illustrated a book, written by various authors, ''The Best 100 True Stories Of World War II'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=6464879&v3=1 |title=Brief Record (Library of Congress Online Catalog) |publisher=Catalog.loc.gov |date=2008-01-29 |accessdate=2012-10-04}}</ref> H. Wise & Co., Inc. 1945. He published his own book in 1934, Pitman Publishing Corporation titled ''First Steps in Pictorial Composition'' <ref>{{cite web|url=http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=10168138&v3=1 |title=Brief Record (Library of Congress Online Catalog) |publisher=Catalog.loc.gov |date= |accessdate=2012-10-04}}</ref> Hall continued to work and show in New York throughout the 20th century.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1921/03/13/112675587.pdf |title=ART - EXHIBITIONS OF PAINTINGS - View Article - NYTimes.com |work=New York Times |date=1921-03-13 |accessdate=2012-10-04}}</ref> He died in 1965.
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==External links== *[https://books.google.com/books?id=6PUaAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22T.+Victor+Hall%22&pg=PA162 Pearson's magazine, Volume 21, Issue 2] *[https://archive.org/details/iturbidesoldiero00mclerich/page/n18 <!-- pg=9 quote="T. Victor Hall". --> Iturbide, a soldier of Mexico, By John Lewin McLeish] *[https://books.google.com/books?id=p7_NAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22T.+Victor+Hall%22&pg=PA791 Munsey's magazine, Volume 38] *[https://archive.org/details/pierrotwoundedot00robe/page/85 <!-- quote="T. Victor Hall". --> Pierrot wounded: and other poems, By Walter Adolphe Roberts] *[https://books.google.com/books?id=Cc7hU_6e01UC&dq=%22T.+Victor+Hall%22&pg=RA4-PA136 Printers' ink, Volume 107/ Photograph of T. Victor Hall] *[http://www.hclib.org/pub/search/WWIIPosters/Action.cfm?CREATOR=Hall%2C%20Thomas%20Victor%2C%201879- Posters of World War II]
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