Discipline: Visual Art

David Campbell

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Somerville, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1976
David Campbell is an American realist painter, poet, and faculty member at the Maine College of Art. Many of his oil paintings, watercolors, and drawings feature urban and industrial scenes rendered meticulously over the course of months and even years of plein-air sessions, deftly imbuing quotidian subjects with abstract significance. A large portion of Campbell's work captures the vibrancy and intricacy of urban and suburban vistas, especially around his former residence in Somerville, Massachusetts. His solo exhibitions include appearances at the Galleria III in Florence, Italy; Boston City Hall; and Babson College. His work is in the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Art Institute of Chicago, Boston Public Library, Maine Maritime Museum, Portland Public Library, and the Museum of Fine Art in Boston. Campbell studied at the Art Students League of New York from 1957-1961.

Studios

New Hampshire

David Campbell worked in the New Hampshire studio.

New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…

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