Patrick Hall (artist)

For other people named Patrick Hall, see Patrick Hall (disambiguation).

Patrick Hall
Born(1906-12-16)16 December 1906
York, England
Died10 June 1992(1992-06-10) (aged 85)
Ashford, Kent
NationalityBritish
Education
  • York School of Art
  • Northampton School of Art
Known forPainting

William Patrick Hall (16 December 1906 – 10 June 1992), was a British artist, who mostly worked in watercolours and specialised in landscapes and town scenes.[1]

Biography
Parachute Training at Ringway (1945) (Art.IWM ART LD5635)

Hall was born in York.[2] While still a teenager, Hall worked on a conservation project restoring the stained glass windows of York Minster. For a time, Hall worked in the family tanning business at Earswick while studying art on a part-time basis.[3] He studied part-time at both the York and Northampton Art Schools and showed an early aptitude for etching and drypoint work.[4]

During World War Two, the War Artists' Advisory Committee commissioned Hall to produce a number of watercolours depicting the training of paratroopers at the Parachute Training School at RAF Ringway in Cheshire.[5] After the war Hall moved to London and set up a studio and worked full-time as an artist. He had a number of solo exhibitions, mainly focusing on landscapes and town scenes, at the Waddington Gallery, Gilbert Parr Gallery and at the Marjore Parr Gallery. He also showed works at the Royal Academy, the New English Art Club and the Paris Salon.[4][2] Works by Hall are held in the collection of the Guildhall in London, the Imperial War Museum and the National Gallery of Australia. For the last twenty years of his life, Hall lived in Sellindge and died at Ashford in Kent.[3]

References
  1. Frances Spalding (1990). 20th Century Painters and Sculptors. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-106-6.
  2. Grant M. Waters (1975). Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900-1950. Eastbourne Fine Art.
  3. Robert Sandelson (9 July 1992). "Obituary: Patrick Hall". The Independent. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  4. David Buckman (1998). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0-95326-095-X.
  5. "Parachute Training at Ringway". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
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