Vincent Campanella Timeline

Vincent Campanella at age 71 in front of self-portrait painted at age 16.

This photo by Dan Seifert appeared in The Kansas City Star "Star" weekly magazine on Sunday Feb. 2, 1986.

1915	Born January 9th in the Hell’s Kitchen area of New York City.
1922	Wins Wanamaker Award for best artwork submitted by public school student.
1923	Enrolls in the Leonardo da Vinci Art School, which he attends until 1934.
1928	Awarded the Life Scholarship and European Scholarship.
1930	Graduates Stuyvesant High School at age 15.
1931	Enrolls in the National Academy of Design, New York, and attends until 1933.
1933	Group exhibition held at Washington Square, New York. Awarded first prize at the Leonardo da Vinci Art School. Group exhibition with the American Watercolor Society.
1934	First Solo Exhibition at the 8th Street Playhouse, New York. Group exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.
1935	Employed by the Works Progress Administration, Easel Division until 1940. Solo exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Gallery, New York. Group exhibition at the Roerich Museum, New York.
1938	Travels to Rock Springs, Wyoming, for the WPA. Group exhibit at WPA Federal Art Project Galleries in New York.
1939	Establishes the Rock Springs Art Association. Group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum, the Denver Museum, the New School for Social Research in New York, and New York World’s Fair.
1940	Artist-in-residence at the University of Wyoming in Laramie until 1941. Solo exhibition in Wyoming State Tour. Awarded a purchase prize from Carville, Louisiana.
1941	Group exhibition at the Carnegie Institute, Art Institute of Chicago, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the San Diego Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Denver Museum and the San Francisco Museum. Awarded a purchase prize from San Francisco Museum and an Honorable Mention from the Denver Museum of Art. Exhibits in Casper, Wyoming. Returns to New York City to work in the munitions industry.
1942	Group exhibitions at the St. Louis Museum and the San Francisco Museum.
1945	Marries Leah Ourlicht on January 6th. Group exhibitions at the Corcoran Art Gallery and the Annual Colorado Springs Exhibition.
1946	Begins teaching at Columbia University, School of Painting and Sculpture, New York (until 1949). Solo exhibition at the Frank Rehn Gallery, New York. Group exhibitions at the University of Nebraska, the Denver Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Brooklyn Museum.
1947	Solo exhibition traveling to Colorado Springs, Portland Museum of Art, and Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Group exhibitions at the Carnegie Institute, Corcoran Art Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Seattle Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the San Francisco Museum and the Indianapolis Art Museum.
1948	Enrolls at the City College of New York. Group exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, Wildenstein Gallery, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum, the University of Nebraska and the University of Illinois.
1949	Moves to Kansas City, Missouri, to teach at the Kansas City Art Institute. Solo exhibitions at Kansas City Art Institute and the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. Group exhibitions at the Corcoran Art Gallery, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the University of Nebraska.
1950	Becomes one of the founders of the Mid-America Art Association. Solo exhibition at the U.S. Army Command School, Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. Group exhibitions at San Francisco Palace Legion of Honor, and the Annual Colorado Springs Exhibition.
1951	Solo exhibitions at the Rehn Gallery, New York, and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
1952	Tura Campanella is born March 19th. Begins teaching at Park College (now University) and creates the art department there. Solo exhibition at the University of Nebraska. Group exhibition at Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Runner-up for the Prix de Rome.
1953	David Campanella is born December 29th. Solo exhibition at the University of Kansas City, Missouri (now University of Missouri-Kansas City).
1954	Receives BA degree from University of Missouri-Kansas City. Solo exhibitions at the Mulvane Museum, Topeka, Kansas and the Rehn Gallery, New York.
1955	Group exhibitions at the Annual Colorado Springs Exhibition, and the Brooklyn Museum.
1956	Receives MA degree in Philosophy at University of Missouri-Kansas City. Group exhibition at the “International Watercolor Exhibition,” in Washington, D.C. that travels to Paris and Tokyo.
1968	Fellowship at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire.
1980	After 28 years, retires from Park University with Emeritus distinction.
2001	Dies December 23, in Austin, Texas.

This timeline was created with the aid of Tura Campanella Cook and Robert Morris’ exhibition catalog, Modes of Perception: Paintings by Vincent Campanella, April 5-May 13, 1995. New York, Hunter College, Leubsdorf Art Gallery, 14-15.