Arthur Wallis Mills

{{Short description|British artist}}

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File:Leaving the Theatre by Arthur Wallis Mills, The Black and White Illustrated Budget, 01903-04-11.jpg

Arthur Wallis Mills (often abbreviated A. Wallis Mills, as well as A. W. Mills) (1878–1940) was a British artist. As well as traditional art forms,{{cite web |url=http://wikiworldbook.com/global-address-book/Wallis-Mills |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120722035250/http://wikiworldbook.com/global-address-book/Wallis-Mills |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-07-22 |title=Wallis Mills |publisher=WikiWorldBook |date= |accessdate=2012-07-31 }} Mills also produced artwork and occasional cartoons for Punch Magazine,{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/mrpunchinbohemia00maypiala |title=Mr. Punch in Bohemia : or, The lighter side of literary, artistic and professional life : May, Phil, 1864-1903, ill : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive |date= |accessdate=2012-07-31}}{{cite web |title=MR. PUNCH IN BOHEMIA — PUNCH LIBRARY OF HUMOUR |author=Phil May |author-link=Phil May, Charles Keene |author2=Charles Keene |author3=George du Maurier |author3-link=George du Maurier |author4=Dudley Hardy |author4-link=Dudley Hardy |author5=Fred Pegram |author5-link=Fred Pegram |author6=F. H. Townsend |author6-link=F. H. Townsend |author7=Lewis Baumer |author7-link=Lewis Baumer |author8=L. Raven-Hill |author8-link=L. Raven-Hill |author9=J. Bernard Partridge |author9-link=J. Bernard Partridge |author10=E. T. Reed |author10-link=Edward Tennyson Reed |author11=H. M. Brock |author11-link=H. M. Brock|author12=C. E. Brock|author12-link=C. E. Brock |author13=Tom Browne |author13-link=Tom Browne (illustrator) |author14=Gunning King |author14-link=Gunning King |author15=Harry Furniss |author15-link=Harry Furniss |author16=A. Wallis Mills |author16-link=A. Wallis Mills |author17=G. L. Stampa |author17-link=G. L. Stampa |editor=J. A. Hammerton |editor-link=J. A. Hammerton|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35874/35874-h/35874-h.htm|display-authors=etal}}{{cite web|url=https://spartacus-educational.com/Jpunch.htm |title=Punch Magazine |publisher=Spartacus-Educational.com |accessdate=2019-02-26 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121009160131/http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jpunch.htm |archivedate=2012-10-09 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/london-transport-posters:-wallis-mills,-always-nv1raw12j4-0-m-mff7uvlarc |title=Wallis Mills - Featured Artist Lot - Onslows |publisher=Artfact |date=2010-12-23 |accessdate=2012-07-31}}{{cite web|url=http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/arthur-wallis-mills-1878-1940-,-afraid-of-the-nv1raw12j4-0-m-enbucju9ae |title=Wallis Mills - Featured Artist Lot - Holloway's |publisher=Artfact |date=2010-12-23 |accessdate=2012-07-31}} The Strand Magazine,{{cite web|url=http://www.studium.com/holmes/strand06.html |title=Sherlock Holmes - The Strand Magazine - 1891-1930 - Studium Magazine |publisher=Studium.com |date=2007-06-21 |accessdate=2012-07-31}} The Humourist, The Black and White Illustrated Budget and The Royal Magazine in the United Kingdom as well as The Wanganui Chronicle in New Zealand. He also illustrated A Cabinet Secret (Guy Boothby, 1901),{{cite book|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/A-Cabinet-Secret-ebook/dp/B005HKFLP2 |title=A Cabinet Secret eBook: Guy Newell Boothby, Arthur Wallis Mills: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store |publisher=Amazon.co.uk |date= |accessdate=2012-07-31}} the 1908 edition of The Novels of Jane Austen in Ten Volumes,{{cite journal|title="Review", The Literary Digest, October 17, 1908, p. 561 |date=1908-10-17}} The Zincali - An account of the gypsies of Spain (George Borrow, 1841) and The Red Book of Heroes (Andrew Lang, 1909).{{cite web|url=http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/arthur-wallis-mills-1878-1940-pair-of-art-nv1raw12j4-0-m-eqf487z9k5 |title=Wallis Mills - Featured Artist Lot - Dickins Auctioneers |publisher=Artfact |date=2010-12-23 |accessdate=2012-07-31}}

Mills illustrated many of P. G. Wodehouse's stories in magazines, including Indiscretions of Archie (1920–1921), Leave It to Psmith (1923), and 15 of P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves short stories in The Strand Magazine, the first being "Jeeves in the Springtime" (1921). He illustrated more Jeeves short stories for their original UK magazine publications than any other artist.