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| Born in Stockton, California, Norval Gill became a painter, craftsperson and muralist who trained at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California. He worked in Oakland on the Federal Arts Project, completing nine murals for the Crockett High School. In San Jose in 1931, he was a part of a stained-glass window project for Herbert Hoover Junior High School
Gill also taught arts and crafts in high school in Centerville, California, and in December, 1938, accepted an art teacher position in Tucson, Arizona at Tucson Senior High School. On the way to Tucson, he and his wife, Patricia Waltz, spent time in Phoenix with Federal Art Project participants including Lew Davis, Mathilde Schaefer, Philip Curtis, Lloyd Kiva New, Andreas Anderson and Mark Voris.
During World War II, Norval Gill worked as a technical illustrator and draftsman at Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Modification Center in Tucson, and after the war, working with Erni Cabat, he established the Cabat-Gill Advertising Agency.
In 1950, he returned to California, settling in Pasadena. He joined Allen L. Grant in establishing Studio G, and worked as a graphic designer with that company until he retired in the 1970s.
Exhibition venues included the Oakland Art Gallery, De Young Museum, Golden Gate International Exposisiton of 1939, WPA exhibit of 1940, and Tucson Art Association during the 1940s.
Sources:
Edan Hughes, Artists in California, 1786-1940
http://www.wpamurals.com/sanjose.html
http://www.wpamurals.com/wpabios.html#G
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