José Arrue Valle (Bilbao, 1885 - Llodio, 1977) was a Basque painter, brother of the painters Alberto, Ricardo and Ramiro Arrue. His work, focused mainly on genre scenes of the Basque Country, places him among the artists who renewed painting in his homeland in the early twentieth century.
His training was varied. He studied at the School of Arts and Crafts in Bilbao and, in 1902, attended classes at the Círculo Artístico in Barcelona, where he received advice from Ramón Casas. Between 1905 and 1906 he travelled with his brother Alberto through Paris and Italy, where he studied the great masters and painted portraits of opera singers.
Back in Bilbao he painted fiestas and Basque scenes that sold easily among friends. In 1908 he took part in founding the satirical weekly El Coitao and spent several months in Seville, which produced three paintings of Andalusian life, exceptions within a body of work set almost always in the Basque Country. He was a teacher of figure drawing at the School of Arts and Crafts in Bilbao.
His legacy is preserved above all in the Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao, which received one of his fiestas in 1926 bequeathed by Laureano de Jado.