Discipline: Visual Art

Vincent Campanella

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Kansas City, MO
MacDowell Fellowships: 1967
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Vincent Campanella (1915–2001) was a painter, primarily of landscapes, though he also explored social realism and abstraction. He was the recipient of the Life Scholarship and European Scholarship and first prize at the Leonardo da Vinci Art School. As an easel artist for the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s, he painted and taught in Rock Springs, WY. His pre-Wyoming style was social realism. Influenced by the open space and geography of Wyoming, his style became abstract. His work has been shown at the Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Institute, Brooklyn Museum, Corcoran Art Gallery, Denver Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, San Diego Museum, San Francisco Museum, Seattle Museum, Toledo Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Universities of Nebraska, Tennessee, and Wyoming. He was represented by the renowned Rehn Gallery in New York until the gallery closed in 1956. Campanella taught at the University of Wyoming (1940), Columbia University (1946-49), the Kansas City Art Institute (1949-52), and Park College (1952-80). Notable students include Robert Morris, Wilbur Niewald, and Dik Browne. Retrospective shows of his work have been held at Hunter College (1995) and the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art (2007).

Studios

Alexander

Vincent Campanella worked in the Alexander studio.

Originally designed to be a visual art gallery, this facility was built in memory of the late John White Alexander (1856-1915) and funded by Elizabeth Alexander and their son James. John White Alexander was highly regarded as a portrait painter and, in the early part of the 20th century, served…

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