Artie Hall (c. 1878/or1881– ?) was an American vaudeville singer and actress, known for her blackface performances as a coon shouter. She was a "petite vocalist with a strong voice". Her most successful role was Topsy in William A. Brady's version of Uncle Tom's Cabin. A controversial part of her act was the removal of a glove to reveal her white skin at the end of a song.
Artie Hall is recorded as having died in the collapse of the San Francisco Orpheum Theater during the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake. This apparently was misconstrued, and misquoted by the New York Times before it was discovered she didn't die. Understandably misquotes of communication with newspapers headquartered in New York may have been impaired as telegraph and telephone wires were down in all of the chaos and fire.
Hall was married circa 1899 to an actor called Robert Fulgora. They were divorced by September 1914. He had at least one child, a daughter who survived him, according to his 1947 obituary. Artie is not stated as being the mother.
Her sister, Pauline des Landes (known professionally as Bonita) was also a vaudeville actress.
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