Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 5

"The Pool Players" by Vincent Richard Campanella

About the Item

Oil on artist board signed and dated lower right featuring pool players playing a point match in the pool hall. Great WPA feel and texture impasto. Most likely the original frame measuring 15.25" x 19.25" overall. Born in New York in 1915, Campanella studied at the Leonardo Da Vinci Art School where the curriculum was based on the Naples Academy founded in the 1440s. He took this classical Renaissance training to the streets of New York, then-rural Astoria, Monhegan Island, and Wyoming. As an easel artist for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s he painted and taught in Rock Springs, Wyoming. There his style became Abstract and works of Classical Abstraction were recognized in art reviews and exhibitions. He was represented by the Rehn Gallery in New York until the death of Frank Rehn in 1956. 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 a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony in 1968. Retrospective shows of his work have been held at Hunter College (1995) and the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art (2007). 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. Campanella was Thomas Hart Benton's closest friend. When Benton died, Mrs. Benton asked Campanella to complete her late husband's final painting.
  • Creator:
    Vincent Campanella (Artist)
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 15.25 in (38.74 cm)Width: 19.25 in (48.9 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
  • Style:
    Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
  • Materials and Techniques:
  • Place of Origin:
  • Period:
  • Date of Manufacture:
    1945
  • Condition:
    Wear consistent with age and use.
  • Seller Location:
    Wiscasset, ME
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1017629393222
More From This SellerView All
  • "The Matador" by Gen Paul
    By Gen Paul
    Located in Wiscasset, ME
    Framed watercolor on paper of a Matador or bull fighter by French artist Gen Paul. Signed lower right. Measures 19" x 17.5" including frame and 11.5" x 9" image. Gen-Paul was born in the Rue Lepic, at the heart of Montmartre. His mother was an embroiderer, and his father was a café musician. Gen-Paul began painting from a young age. An apprentice interior decorative artist, he looked about him in the wealthy apartments where his work took him and observed the pieces collected by art lovers, and he learned anatomy by getting to know surgeons and going with them into operating theatres. He also attended the École des Beaux-Arts. He painted on discarded cigar boxes using...
    Category

    Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Paintings

    Materials

    Paint

  • "The Cafe" by Valery Tsarikovsky
    By Valery Tsarikovsky (TSAR)
    Located in Wiscasset, ME
    Oil on canvas by Valery Tsarikovsky signed lower right Tsar. The measurements are 29” by 34” framed and 20” by 27” unframed.
    Category

    1990s American Paintings

    Materials

    Paint

  • "Knitting by the Hearth" by Sam Uhrdin
    Located in Wiscasset, ME
    Oil on canvas, signed and dated in the upper left and inscribed on the reverse. Painting features a Swedish girl knitting by the fire. The work has a lovely warm feel to it. Sam Uhrdin...
    Category

    Vintage 1950s Swedish Aesthetic Movement Paintings

    Materials

    Paint

  • "Warming by the Fire" by Charles Green
    By Charles Green
    Located in Wiscasset, ME
    Oil on panel, measures 17" x 21" painting and with frame 24" x 27.5". Signed and dated 1885 lower left. Charles Green studied at Leigh’s School of Fine Art and under the engraver, J W Whymper, before quickly establishing himself as a painter and illustrator. Specialising in genre pieces, he joined the Langham Sketching Club and was elected to the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (ARI 1864; RI 1867). His elder brother, Henry Towneley Green, was also a member. His contribution of contemporary subjects to the early numbers of The Graphic were admired by Van Gogh, but he was best known for his depiction of period settings and for his illustrations to The Old Curiosity Shop...
    Category

    Antique 1880s English Victorian Paintings

    Materials

    Paint

  • "On the Banks of the River" by Gustave Castan
    Located in Wiscasset, ME
    Oil on canvas, signed lower left. Measurements: Framed: 38" x 58" Unframed: 32" x 52" Provenance: JJ Patrickson and Son (label on reverse) The Englishman Fine Art, Naples, FL Gustave Castan...
    Category

    Antique 19th Century Swiss Victorian Paintings

    Materials

    Paint

  • "The Farm" by François Gall
    By François Gall
    Located in Wiscasset, ME
    Oil on canvas, signed in the lower right. Measures 176" x 18.5" including the frame and 8" x 10.5" sight. Francois Gall 1912-1987 French Well listed artist in the Benezit. ...
    Category

    Mid-20th Century French Beaux Arts Paintings

    Materials

    Paint

You May Also Like
  • "The Bergundian Players" by Kevin Paulsen
    By Kevin Paulsen
    Located in Nantucket, MA
    "The Bergundian Players" by Kevin Paulsen. Interior scene painting created with pigment on plaster, mounted on polystyrene, all in a shadow box frame.
    Category

    21st Century and Contemporary American Paintings

    Materials

    Polystyrene, Plaster, Paint

  • "The Collector" by Richard Chalfant
    Located in West Chester, PA
    Is collecting a simple pleasure or an all consuming obsession? The collector is facinated and entranced with beauty. The secret is knowing when to let the fire fly go.
    Category

    21st Century and Contemporary Paintings

  • "The Point" Painting by Richard Chalfant
    Located in West Chester, PA
    Sea meets land, waves roll to shore breaking in direction and size. This is a study in transparency, movement, and reflection.
    Category

    21st Century and Contemporary Paintings

  • "End of the Night" by Richard Chalfant
    Located in West Chester, PA
    Enveloped in darkness the night fisher listens to the sea pound the rocks and feels the ground shake with the weight of the surf. The ocean spray washes away the thoughts of the day....
    Category

    21st Century and Contemporary Paintings

  • "Drifting in the Shadows" by Richard Chalfant
    Located in West Chester, PA
    This nocturne illustrates a moment when a quiet boating party’s serenity is suddenly rocked. The once peaceful night sky explodes with fireworks and merrymaking. Someone is always qu...
    Category

    20th Century American Paintings

  • "The Summer Of Our Content" By Richard Hennessy
    By Richard Hennessy
    Located in Sheffield, MA
    RICHARD HENNESSY AMERICAN, b. 1941 "THE SUMMER OF OUR CONTENT" "Large" Oil on canvas Signed and dated 1980 on verso 60 by 72 ½ in. Provenance: From the estate of Christopher Scott, acquired from the artist. Note: Christopher Scott was a painter who was best known as curator/gadfly Henry, Geldzahler's partner. This relationship was immortalized in one of David Hockney's best portraits of 1969. EDUCATION: EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC, 1954-59 COLUMBIA COLLEGE, B.A., 1963 INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, 1963-66 PUBLIC COLLECTIONS ALBRIGHT KNOX ART GALLERY, BUFFALO, NEW YORK AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH BROOKLYN MUSEUM, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK CARNEGIE MUSEUM, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA CENTRO CULTURAL, MUSEO CONTEMPORANEO, MEXICO CITY COPLAND HOUSE, CORTLANDT MANOR, NEW YORK DAYTON ART INSTITUTE, DAYTON, OHIO DOW JONES HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, SAN ANTONIO HECKSHER MUSEUM OF ART, HUNTINGTON, NEW YORK I. T. & T. ITALIAN RELIEF FUND J.P.MORGAN CHASE JACK S. BLANTON MUSEUM,UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK MOMA/P.S.1, STAIRWELL MURAL NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART, PENNSYLVANIA PHOENIX ART MUSEUM, PHOENIX, ARIZONA READER'S DIGEST SAMUEL P. HARN MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA AT GAINESVILLE SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART SHEPHERD SCHOOL OF MUSIC, RICE UNIVERSITY, HOUSTON SHIMIZU CONSTRUCTION, TOKYO SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, NEW YORK THE COMMODITIES CORPORATION, TRINITY UNIVERSITY, SAN ANTONIO, TX THE LANNAN FOUNDATION, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA THE WADSWORTH ATHENEUM, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT WESTINGHOUSE CORPORATION WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, NEW YORK AWARDS 2008 THE POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION 1988 THE POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION 1987 THE ANN AND ERLO VAN WAVEREN FOUNDATION 1983 INGRAM MERRILL FOUNDATION SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2008 CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY HUDSON, NY 1991 MARGULIES/TAPLIN GALLERY BAY HARBOR ISLANDS, FL 1989 BALL STATE UNIVERSITY MUNCIE, IN 1986 NINA FREUDENHEIM GALLERY BUFFALO 1986 JOHN GOOD GALLERY NEW YORK 1985 GETLER/PALL/SAPER GALLERY NEW YORK 1983 HAMILTON GALLERY NEW YORK 1982 HAMILTON GALLERY NEW YORK 1981 IVORY KIMPTON GALLERY SAN FRANCISCO 1980 HAMILTON GALLERY NEW YORK 1978 ROBERT MILLER GALLERY NEW YORK 1976 OLIVER BERNIER, INC. NEW YORK 1976 GREY ART GALLERY, NYU NEW YORK RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION 1976 OLIVIER BERNIER, INC. NEW YORK 1970 TIBOR DE NAGY GALLERY NEW YORK 1969 OLIVIER BERNIER, INC. NEW YORK GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2007 VILLE DE REIMS GLOBAL BOOKS: LES LIVRES D'ARTISTE DE GERVAIS JASSAUD 2006 WEBER FINE ART GREENWICH, CT MY FRIENDS-THEIR VISION 2006 SNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER STATEN ISLAND, NY ABSTRACT LANDSCAPES 2000 THE HECKSCHER MUSEUM OF ART HUNTINGTON, NY AARON COPLAND’S AMERICA 1997 ESPACE CULTUREL DE TINQUEUX FRANCE LA TENTATION DU LIVRE 1992 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY NEW YORK THE ARTIST, THE WRITER AND THE BOOK DESIGN (ARTISTS'S BOOKS FROM COLLECTIF GÉNÉRATION) 1992 MARGULIES/TAPLIN GALLERY MIAMI GROUP SHOW 1991 NINA FREUDENHEIM GALLERY BUFFALO RICHARD HENNESSY AND JEFFREY WASSERMAN 1991 ANDRE EMMERICH GALLERY NEW YORK ABSTRACT PAINTING: THE 90'S 1991 FRENCH CULTURAL SERVICES NEW YORK LIVRES D'ARTISTES OF COLLECTIF GÉNÉRATION 1991 SAMUEL P. HARN MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA AT GAINESVILLE GAINESVILLE, FL CONTEMPORARY ART 1990 MARTA CERVERA GALLERY NEW YORK THE PAINTER AND HIS OCCASION, CURATED BY ALAN JONES...
    Category

    Late 20th Century American Contemporary Art

    Materials

    Canvas

Recently Viewed

View All