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Hugh Campbell
"Spring on Risdon Street, Mt. Holly, NJ"

About the Item

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork. Signed lower right. Complemented by a hand carved and gilt frame. Hugh Campbell (1905-1997) Born December 4, 1905 in Atchison, Kansas. He moved to the Camden, New Jersey area when he was 10 years old. Hugh Campbell left a nine-to-five job in 1930's to pursue an artist's life. He jumped into his new life with nothing but determination and a "feeling" that he could paint. He had no formal training. Training himself was his first priority, which he did by drawing over 1,000,000 free-hand circles and then over 130,000 action sketches of people on the streets. But it was the fields around his boyhood fishing spots in Mount Holly where he felt the most at home. He commuted from Camden to Mount Holly regularly as he discovered that those fields and streets were the subject matter that he wanted to paint. He had no money and no place to stay so he would pitch a tent in a field and stay overnight. At one point the owner of Hack's Canoe Retreat told him that he didn't have to pitch a tent, he could come as often as he liked and stay as long as he liked in an unheated canoe barn at no charge. He thought Hugh was going to stay a week or two, but he ended up staying seven years. In the 1940s Hugh Campbell bought an old tar paper bicycle repair shop building for $150 and moved in onto Kates Tract the woods on the banks of the Rancocas. Hugh Campbell had a quiet, austere lifestyle. Each night, winter and summer, he would go to Milldam Park and meditate. Each day, carrying his heavy painting gear, he would roam the fields, valleys and woods up and down the Rancocas Creek and look for inspiration. Then, after painting, he would record in his voluminous diaries the goings-on all around him. Every Sunday he would display his paintings along the concrete wall on High Street for even then unheard of prices of 20 or 30 dollars. He earned, on average, an income of about $2.00 to $5.00 a week from the sale of his paintings. As he refined his technique he became a regular at the Rittenhouse Square Annual Clothesline Exhibit in Philadelphia.
  • Creator:
    Hugh Campbell (1905 - 1981, American)
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 43 in (109.22 cm)Width: 48 in (121.92 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Lambertville, NJ
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: NJOL121 1stDibs: LU374310022

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