Born in North Greenfield, Wisconsin, to Walter Augustus and Mathilde Carhart Hall, during her childhood Marie Hall moved with her family from town to town in Wisconsin. As early as the first grade, when she was the only child admitted to an adult drawing class, she exhibited a talent for art, which was a major interest for the rest of her life. After a year at Lawrence College in Appleton, Wisconsin (1911-1912), Hall studied at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts (now the Parsons School of Design), from which she received a two-year certificate, apparently in 1913. She married Milton Rodig on 30 November 1917, and they lived in San Francisco, where she was employed briefly as an artist. Rodig died in January 1918, and Hall returned to the Midwest to begin an eleven-year career as a social worker, being employed in various capacities, including ten years as a...