Comments on: Gretna Campbell

By: Andrew Wykes

Andrew Wykes — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 14:23:37 +0000

yes i was there then.

By: #O66: No News – Fruitful Dark

#O66: No News – Fruitful Dark — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 05:50:46 +0000

[…] recently re-read the post about Gretna Campbell on Painting Perceptions, and each time I look at her paintings I am more and more attracted to the way in which she […]

By: diane drescher

diane drescher — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 01:44:21 +0000

oops–i just noticed the typos.. can i correct my comment?

By: diane drescher

diane drescher — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 01:39:53 +0000

I recently posted a blog about Gretna Campbell at Bowerygallery.wordpress.com. Many Bowery members studied with Gretna at the NYSS and Yale and at Philadelphia College of Art and they share their fond memories, plus there are many good paintings. Many thanks to Henry Finkelstein for supplying these images. Here is the link: https://bowerygallery.wordpress.com/2016/09/22/gretna-campbell-artist-and-teacher/ I invite everyone to read the Bowery blog on our blog I included a link to Painting Perceptions but didn't realize that this site allows comments. How wonderful to read.

By: megan Williamson

megan Williamson — Mon, 21 May 2012 17:26:57 +0000

Janice’s show lead me to this post. I am happy I found it as Gretna was an amazing painter and teacher. And as Gretna stories are beeing collected here, I’d like to add one of my favorites.

This happened in the first weeks of my first term at the NYSS. The model was taking a break and Gretna had us all sit on the floor in front of her to look at a book with a Marquet flag painting. She was on a chair and said (as she pointed), “Here’s a blue, here’s a blue, here’s a blue. See how they make a triangle?” I thought, here I’ve gone all the way through college and I’m back in kindergarden learning my shapes…

The thing is, that was one great triangle and it served me well. With that concept Gretna began teaching me (us) about a whole new level of painting. How lucky we were to have her to pass that information on.

By: Richard Dean

Richard Dean — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:23:39 +0000

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-seed/janice-nowinski_b_1511997.html

Interesting article here in the Huffpo about the painter Janice Nowinski, former student of Gretna Campbell…

By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:25:36 +0000

In reply to Robert Bunkin. Robert, I would suggest you speak to Gretna Campbell's son, the painter Henry Finkelstein, you can get his email and contact information on his website. I believe he has photographed and cataloged most of his mother's work and would likely know if she ever painted there.

By: Robert Bunkin

Robert Bunkin — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 06:43:41 +0000

I’d love to know if Gretna Campbell ever painted any Staten Island-based landscapes. I’m curating a show on this theme for 2013 for the Staten Island Museum’s new galleries at Snug Harbor, and would love to include a work by her, if such a work exists.

By: Mike Boyle

Mike Boyle — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:27:53 +0000

Gretna was a guest artist at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, I’m guessing back in 1984. As she was conducting a critique, one student pointed out that his/her (I can’t remember) painting was a copy of one of Ms. Campbell’s paintings that he/she did in anticipation of Gretna’s visit. Gretna replied that it didn’t look a bit like anything that she’d done. I’m sure that to the student’s eyes, it was a reasonable likeness to Gretna’s work – however, Gretna could see well beyond the superficial similarity, and it looked unrecognizable to her.

By: ilan plawker

ilan plawker — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:48:14 +0000

We own two of Gretna’s paintings. The larger of the two (Winter at Salamorka) 1978 is 64″x 45″. It was lent to Yale at their request some years ago. It hangs in our dining room.
The second is a bit smaller and is a scene in western New Jersey.
Her work has inspired me to start painting on my own.
Some years ago, we purchased a painting from Sonia Gleneva (?) at a Greenwich Village fair. She told us she had been a student of Henry Finkelstein.
I don’t feel that Gretna was ever accorded the recognition she deserved. Her brush strokes come alive each time I gaze into the painting…because that is what one does…gaze into her vision and her paintings of them.
Ilan Plawker