Rags to Riches

Ron Hall

   Although Ron grew up in the lower class of society, he soon rose to prominence through dealing art.  Ron said, "As I mentioned, I did not start out rich.  I was raised in a lower-middle class section of Fort Worth called Haltom City. (Pg. 18)"  At first, Ron was just your average citizen working hard for even meager wages, earning $450 a month by selling Campbell's soup.  However after Ron discovered his artistic eye and bargaining skills, his life as an art dealer flourished.   He said, "It didn't take long for the zeros to begin piling up in the bank accounts of Ron and Debbie Hall. (Pg. 8)"  Elite clientele invited the Halls to travel to their prime vacation spots.  At first, Ron's life ambition was art dealing and making money.  After researching the job of an art dealer, I discovered that for the most part it is not a glorious job.  I believe, though,  that God blessed Ron's job and allowed him to succeed.  Without God's hand working throughout Ron's life as an art dealer, Ron would have been double-crossed by Barney Goldberg at the beginning of his art career.  In God's sovereignty, he fashioned the "rags to riches" tale into Ron Hall's life.
Art Dealing:
http://www.vault.com/wps/portal/usa/professions/profile/Art-Dealer?search_result_id=678&PROFESSION_NAME=Art-Dealer&POPULAR_TRACKING=true&assignid=678&page_type=professions&rankingId1=678

A couple works of art dealt:

The Signal by Charles Russell
 Ron: "At first, I dabbled in art sales while keeping my investment-banking day job.  But in 1975, when I cleared $10,000 on a Charles Russell painting I sold to a man in Beverly Hills who wore gold-tipped white-python cowboy boots and a diamond-studded belt buckle size of a dinner plate.  After that, I quit banking and ventured out to walk the art-world tightwire without a net. (Pg. 8)

The Eagle by Alexander Calder
Ron: "Even so, in the fall of 1998, I received the kind of call of which art dealers' fantasies are made...the deal included "Eagle," a forty-foot sculpture by the twentieth-century master Alexander Calder, one of only sixteen monumental stabile sculptures the artist executed in his lifetime. (Pg. 123)"