Elaine and Bill

Lee Hall was born in Lexington, North Carolina on December 15, 1934. She received a bachelor of fine arts degree in 1955 from the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, in Greensboro and a master's degree in art education in 1959 and a doctorate in creative arts in 1965 from New York University. She went on to do postdoctoral work at the Warburg Institute in London.

She was an abstract landscape painter. She wrote several books including Betty Parsons: Artist, Dealer, Collector; Elaine and Bill: Portrait of a Marriage; Common Threads: A Parade of American Clothing; and Athena: A Biography. She also wrote two monographs entitled Wallace Herndon Smith: Paintings and Abe Ajay. She died from gastric cancer on April 17, 2017 at the age of 82.

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