In 1900, Dilmus Hall was born in Oconee Country Georgia, into a tenant farming family. At age thirteen he moved to Athens, Georgia, and he developed an interest in art, despite his family's objection to this impractical profession. He served in the army in Belgium during World War II and was influenced by the art he saw in Europe. He returned to Athens and held a variety of jobs including hotel work, work for the highway department, as a waiter and a sorority house busboy on the University of Georgia campus, and as a fabricator of concrete blocks.
Before being stopped by arthritis, Hall created concrete, metal and wood sculptures, some of the devil in various activities, and some of fanciful human and animal figures. After his arthritis became too painful for him to continue making sculptures, he began to make drawings. Dilmus passed away in 1987, and many of his pieces are in museum collections.
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