Orville Campbell - Artist Info

About Orville Campbell

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    Orville A. Campbell (1903-1987) San Antonio & Kerrville, Texas

    Orville Campbell began his art studies with Eloise Polk McGill (1868 - 1939) during the early 1920's and later with John Herbert Barnard (1880 - 1949). He exhibited for the first time at the Witte Museum in 1930 among such artists as José Arpa (1858 - 1952), Peter Lanz Hohnstedt (1871/72 - 1957), Harold Roney (1899 - 1986), Rolla Taylor (1872 - 1970) and others. Campbell lived in San Antonio and later moved his studio to Kerrville, Texas where he remained for the rest of his life.

    President Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1960's chose one of Orville Campbell's paintings titled "Sinclair Worker" as the best painting at an exhibit at the L.B.J. State ...

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