Victor Thall was born in New York in 1902. At the age of eleven, he studied under Arthur B. Davies, George Bellows, George Luks, and John Sloan at the Arts Student League, where he was the youngest member. He continued his studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. In 1924, Thall traveled to Paris to study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and the Academie Julien, where he met Henri Matisse, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Thall returned to the United States during the Great Depression and made friends with Willem and Elaine de Kooning and Arshile Gorky. In the late 1940s, he taught at the Arts Student League and was represented by the Whitney Museum in 1949 and 1950. His paintings are in numerous private collections in the United States and Europe. Thall passed away in 1983.

1943: Puma Gallery, New York City
1944: Levitt Gallery, New York City
1946: Chinese Gallery, New York City
1947: Binet Gallery, New York City
1949: Whitney Museum, New York City
1950: Whitney Museum, New York City
1961: Leicester Gallery, London
1963: Guildhall Gallery, Chicago
1964: L’Institute Francais, Haiti
1965: Studio Gallery, Naples, FL
1969: DePaliolo Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
Summit Gallery, New York City
Southampton Gallery, New York City
Milch Gallery, New York City
O'Connor Gallery, New York City