Biography from AskART:
| Born in San Francisco, California, Arthur Cahill became noted for his
portraiture. He was also an illustrator and caricaturist who
lived in California much of his life but spent a few years in San
Antonio, Texas in the 1930s.
Cahill attended public school in
Eureka and the Jesuit Brothers School of San Jose. He studied art
at the Mark Hopkins Institute and in Paris, and from 1892 to 1906,
worked as an illustrator for San Francisco newspapers. After the
earthquake and fire, he worked for the New York World newspaper, and then, in 1910, returned to California to become editor of Sunset magazine and to do illustrations for the Southern Pacific Railroad.
In 1915, he took up portraiture full time, and his subjects include President Hoover and General John J Pershing.
He died on April 10, 1970 at the home of his son in Coos Bay, Oregon.
Sources:
Edan Hughes, Artists in California, 1786-1940
Peggy and Harold Samuels, The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West |
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Arthur Cahill is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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