Esther Cooper Campbell
(December 02, 1920 ~ October 02, 1987)
2 December 1920 – 2 October 1987
[Estimated Age at Death: 66 years, 10 months]
***
San Francisco Chronicle (CA) - Thursday, October 8, 1987
Esther Campbell
Services have been held in Missouri for Esther Campbell, 66, co-founder of the Charles Campbell Gallery, who died of cancer last Friday in Joplin, Mo. [Jasper or Newton County, Missouri]
A native of Missouri, Mrs. Campbell moved to San Francisco in 1945 and worked for the Western Pacific Railroad until she opened the gallery at 647 Chestnut Street with her husband.
She is survived by her husband, Charles; a sister, Genive Prauser, of Baxter Springs, Kan., and a brother Carl Cooper, of Kansas City, Mo.
The family suggests memorial donations to the American Cancer Society.
San Francisco Chronicle (CA) - Page: A25.
Thursday, October 8, 1987
Edition: FINAL
Deceased Name: Esther Campbell.
~*~
*~*
Social Security Death Index
Name: Esther C. Campbell
State of Issue: Missouri
Date of Birth: Thursday December 02, 1920
Date of Death: Friday October 02, 1987
Est. Age at Death: 66 years, 10 months
Confirmation: Verified
Last known residence:
City: San Francisco
County: San Francisco
State: California
ZIP Code: 94107
Latitude: 37.7757
Longitude: -122.3952
~*~
*~*
San Francisco Chronicle (CA) - Thursday, October 9, 2014
Obituary: Gallery owner Charles Campbell dies at age 99
By Kenneth Baker Updated 5:23 pm PDT, Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Charles Campbell, a San Francisco gallery owner who represented major Bay Area contemporary artists for more than 60 years, died of natural causes Friday at his San Francisco home. He was 99.
Mr. Campbell became famous locally for showing what he liked, irrespective of fashion or potential profit. He happened to admire and exhibit many artist later identified with the region's signature art movement, Bay Area Figuration. They included Nathan Oliviera (1928-2010), Paul Wonner (1920-2008), Gordon Cook (1927-1985), Theophilus "Bill" Brown (1919-2012), James Weeks (1922-1998) and Joan Brown (1938-1990).
The back room at Mr. Campbell's gallery was long known to locals as a treasure trove of artistic miscellany. There visitors might pore over an ever-changing array of works on paper and small paintings American and European artists both famous and obscure, interspersed with Indian miniatures and the odd Pre-columbian or African artifact.
Nothing comparable exists, or perhaps could exist, in the supercharged and economically polarized art market of today.
Mr. Campbell began his art world career in San Francisco when he opened opened a frame shop in 1947 not far from the San Francisco Art Institute (then known as the California School of Fine Arts).
The school staff had several members, including its president, who were capable jazz musicians. Mr. Campbell's love of jazz led to friendships with them, including David Park (1911-1960), Elmer Bischoff (1916-1991) and Wally Hedrick (1928-2003).
Modest collection
Mr. Campbell soon began to hang their work and that of other artists in his shop and began collecting modestly by purchase and trade, although he lacked the space to show their work properly until he opened the Charles Campbell Gallery in North Beach in 1972.
Mr. Campbell partnered in business with Paul Thiebaud (1960-2010) in 1990. The establishment changed its name to the Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, and began to show a fresh roster of artists, including Wayne Thiebaud and Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993).The partnership ended on friendly terms in 2001, with the business becoming the Paul Thiebaud Gallery.
Mr. Campbell later entered into a less happy collaboration with a former gallery assistant, Steven Lopez, resulting in a legal dispute finally resolved by their friend in common and former San Francisco supervisor and mayoral and presidential candidate, Matt Gonzalez.
Mr. Campbell's absence from his gallery would often mean that he was off traveling the world.
In 1988, he married longtime artist friend Glenna Putt in Nepal, some time after both had lost their spouses.
Raised in Shanghai
Mr. Campbell was born in Santa Cruz into a family of second generation gold miners on Jan. 10, 1915. His parents hitched their fate to that of a mine in Siberia and Mr. Campbell spent his early years there until the mine was expropriated during the Bolshevik Revolution. Mr. Campbell lived the rest of his childhood with his family in Shanghai.
After high school in Shanghai, Mr. Campbell moved to Los Angeles, drawn there by its jazz scene. He became deeply involved in it, working briefly as a driver for blind pianist Art Tatum and, with stenographic skills honed during service in the Coast Guard, recorded extensive conversations with New Orleans jazz eminence Jelly Roll Morton.
Mr. Campbell's involvement with jazz culminated in San Francisco when he became manager of the great trombone player Turk Murphy. They briefly ran a club together, The Italian Villa, where Murphy's was the house band.
Mr. Campbell is survived by his wife; stepson Peter Putt of Santa Cruz; nephew Mike McCann of Seattle; grand-nephew Jerry McCann of Nairobi, Kenya; and grandniece Toni Burton of Aptos.
Gifts or donations in his memory can be made to the San Francisco Art Institute.
Author: Kenneth Baker, is The San Francisco Chronicle’s art critic.
San Francisco Chronicle (CA) -
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Obituary-Gallery-owner-Charles-Campbell-dies-at-5807654.php
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Deceased Name: Charles Campbell.
~*~
*~*
(December 02, 1920 ~ October 02, 1987)
2 December 1920 – 2 October 1987
[Estimated Age at Death: 66 years, 10 months]
***
San Francisco Chronicle (CA) - Thursday, October 8, 1987
Esther Campbell
Services have been held in Missouri for Esther Campbell, 66, co-founder of the Charles Campbell Gallery, who died of cancer last Friday in Joplin, Mo. [Jasper or Newton County, Missouri]
A native of Missouri, Mrs. Campbell moved to San Francisco in 1945 and worked for the Western Pacific Railroad until she opened the gallery at 647 Chestnut Street with her husband.
She is survived by her husband, Charles; a sister, Genive Prauser, of Baxter Springs, Kan., and a brother Carl Cooper, of Kansas City, Mo.
The family suggests memorial donations to the American Cancer Society.
San Francisco Chronicle (CA) - Page: A25.
Thursday, October 8, 1987
Edition: FINAL
Deceased Name: Esther Campbell.
~*~
*~*
Social Security Death Index
Name: Esther C. Campbell
State of Issue: Missouri
Date of Birth: Thursday December 02, 1920
Date of Death: Friday October 02, 1987
Est. Age at Death: 66 years, 10 months
Confirmation: Verified
Last known residence:
City: San Francisco
County: San Francisco
State: California
ZIP Code: 94107
Latitude: 37.7757
Longitude: -122.3952
~*~
*~*
San Francisco Chronicle (CA) - Thursday, October 9, 2014
Obituary: Gallery owner Charles Campbell dies at age 99
By Kenneth Baker Updated 5:23 pm PDT, Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Charles Campbell, a San Francisco gallery owner who represented major Bay Area contemporary artists for more than 60 years, died of natural causes Friday at his San Francisco home. He was 99.
Mr. Campbell became famous locally for showing what he liked, irrespective of fashion or potential profit. He happened to admire and exhibit many artist later identified with the region's signature art movement, Bay Area Figuration. They included Nathan Oliviera (1928-2010), Paul Wonner (1920-2008), Gordon Cook (1927-1985), Theophilus "Bill" Brown (1919-2012), James Weeks (1922-1998) and Joan Brown (1938-1990).
The back room at Mr. Campbell's gallery was long known to locals as a treasure trove of artistic miscellany. There visitors might pore over an ever-changing array of works on paper and small paintings American and European artists both famous and obscure, interspersed with Indian miniatures and the odd Pre-columbian or African artifact.
Nothing comparable exists, or perhaps could exist, in the supercharged and economically polarized art market of today.
Mr. Campbell began his art world career in San Francisco when he opened opened a frame shop in 1947 not far from the San Francisco Art Institute (then known as the California School of Fine Arts).
The school staff had several members, including its president, who were capable jazz musicians. Mr. Campbell's love of jazz led to friendships with them, including David Park (1911-1960), Elmer Bischoff (1916-1991) and Wally Hedrick (1928-2003).
Modest collection
Mr. Campbell soon began to hang their work and that of other artists in his shop and began collecting modestly by purchase and trade, although he lacked the space to show their work properly until he opened the Charles Campbell Gallery in North Beach in 1972.
Mr. Campbell partnered in business with Paul Thiebaud (1960-2010) in 1990. The establishment changed its name to the Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, and began to show a fresh roster of artists, including Wayne Thiebaud and Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993).The partnership ended on friendly terms in 2001, with the business becoming the Paul Thiebaud Gallery.
Mr. Campbell later entered into a less happy collaboration with a former gallery assistant, Steven Lopez, resulting in a legal dispute finally resolved by their friend in common and former San Francisco supervisor and mayoral and presidential candidate, Matt Gonzalez.
Mr. Campbell's absence from his gallery would often mean that he was off traveling the world.
In 1988, he married longtime artist friend Glenna Putt in Nepal, some time after both had lost their spouses.
Raised in Shanghai
Mr. Campbell was born in Santa Cruz into a family of second generation gold miners on Jan. 10, 1915. His parents hitched their fate to that of a mine in Siberia and Mr. Campbell spent his early years there until the mine was expropriated during the Bolshevik Revolution. Mr. Campbell lived the rest of his childhood with his family in Shanghai.
After high school in Shanghai, Mr. Campbell moved to Los Angeles, drawn there by its jazz scene. He became deeply involved in it, working briefly as a driver for blind pianist Art Tatum and, with stenographic skills honed during service in the Coast Guard, recorded extensive conversations with New Orleans jazz eminence Jelly Roll Morton.
Mr. Campbell's involvement with jazz culminated in San Francisco when he became manager of the great trombone player Turk Murphy. They briefly ran a club together, The Italian Villa, where Murphy's was the house band.
Mr. Campbell is survived by his wife; stepson Peter Putt of Santa Cruz; nephew Mike McCann of Seattle; grand-nephew Jerry McCann of Nairobi, Kenya; and grandniece Toni Burton of Aptos.
Gifts or donations in his memory can be made to the San Francisco Art Institute.
Author: Kenneth Baker, is The San Francisco Chronicle’s art critic.
San Francisco Chronicle (CA) -
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Obituary-Gallery-owner-Charles-Campbell-dies-at-5807654.php
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Deceased Name: Charles Campbell.
~*~
*~*
Esther Cooper Campbell
(December 02, 1920 ~ October 02, 1987)
2 December 1920 – 2 October 1987
[Estimated Age at Death: 66 years, 10 months]
***
San Francisco Chronicle (CA) - Thursday, October 8, 1987
Esther Campbell
Services have been held in Missouri for Esther Campbell, 66, co-founder of the Charles Campbell Gallery, who died of cancer last Friday in Joplin, Mo. [Jasper or Newton County, Missouri]
A native of Missouri, Mrs. Campbell moved to San Francisco in 1945 and worked for the Western Pacific Railroad until she opened the gallery at 647 Chestnut Street with her husband.
She is survived by her husband, Charles; a sister, Genive Prauser, of Baxter Springs, Kan., and a brother Carl Cooper, of Kansas City, Mo.
The family suggests memorial donations to the American Cancer Society.
San Francisco Chronicle (CA) - Page: A25.
Thursday, October 8, 1987
Edition: FINAL
Deceased Name: Esther Campbell.
~*~
*~*
Social Security Death Index
Name: Esther C. Campbell
State of Issue: Missouri
Date of Birth: Thursday December 02, 1920
Date of Death: Friday October 02, 1987
Est. Age at Death: 66 years, 10 months
Confirmation: Verified
Last known residence:
City: San Francisco
County: San Francisco
State: California
ZIP Code: 94107
Latitude: 37.7757
Longitude: -122.3952
~*~
*~*
San Francisco Chronicle (CA) - Thursday, October 9, 2014
Obituary: Gallery owner Charles Campbell dies at age 99
By Kenneth Baker Updated 5:23 pm PDT, Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Charles Campbell, a San Francisco gallery owner who represented major Bay Area contemporary artists for more than 60 years, died of natural causes Friday at his San Francisco home. He was 99.
Mr. Campbell became famous locally for showing what he liked, irrespective of fashion or potential profit. He happened to admire and exhibit many artist later identified with the region's signature art movement, Bay Area Figuration. They included Nathan Oliviera (1928-2010), Paul Wonner (1920-2008), Gordon Cook (1927-1985), Theophilus "Bill" Brown (1919-2012), James Weeks (1922-1998) and Joan Brown (1938-1990).
The back room at Mr. Campbell's gallery was long known to locals as a treasure trove of artistic miscellany. There visitors might pore over an ever-changing array of works on paper and small paintings American and European artists both famous and obscure, interspersed with Indian miniatures and the odd Pre-columbian or African artifact.
Nothing comparable exists, or perhaps could exist, in the supercharged and economically polarized art market of today.
Mr. Campbell began his art world career in San Francisco when he opened opened a frame shop in 1947 not far from the San Francisco Art Institute (then known as the California School of Fine Arts).
The school staff had several members, including its president, who were capable jazz musicians. Mr. Campbell's love of jazz led to friendships with them, including David Park (1911-1960), Elmer Bischoff (1916-1991) and Wally Hedrick (1928-2003).
Modest collection
Mr. Campbell soon began to hang their work and that of other artists in his shop and began collecting modestly by purchase and trade, although he lacked the space to show their work properly until he opened the Charles Campbell Gallery in North Beach in 1972.
Mr. Campbell partnered in business with Paul Thiebaud (1960-2010) in 1990. The establishment changed its name to the Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, and began to show a fresh roster of artists, including Wayne Thiebaud and Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993).The partnership ended on friendly terms in 2001, with the business becoming the Paul Thiebaud Gallery.
Mr. Campbell later entered into a less happy collaboration with a former gallery assistant, Steven Lopez, resulting in a legal dispute finally resolved by their friend in common and former San Francisco supervisor and mayoral and presidential candidate, Matt Gonzalez.
Mr. Campbell's absence from his gallery would often mean that he was off traveling the world.
In 1988, he married longtime artist friend Glenna Putt in Nepal, some time after both had lost their spouses.
Raised in Shanghai
Mr. Campbell was born in Santa Cruz into a family of second generation gold miners on Jan. 10, 1915. His parents hitched their fate to that of a mine in Siberia and Mr. Campbell spent his early years there until the mine was expropriated during the Bolshevik Revolution. Mr. Campbell lived the rest of his childhood with his family in Shanghai.
After high school in Shanghai, Mr. Campbell moved to Los Angeles, drawn there by its jazz scene. He became deeply involved in it, working briefly as a driver for blind pianist Art Tatum and, with stenographic skills honed during service in the Coast Guard, recorded extensive conversations with New Orleans jazz eminence Jelly Roll Morton.
Mr. Campbell's involvement with jazz culminated in San Francisco when he became manager of the great trombone player Turk Murphy. They briefly ran a club together, The Italian Villa, where Murphy's was the house band.
Mr. Campbell is survived by his wife; stepson Peter Putt of Santa Cruz; nephew Mike McCann of Seattle; grand-nephew Jerry McCann of Nairobi, Kenya; and grandniece Toni Burton of Aptos.
Gifts or donations in his memory can be made to the San Francisco Art Institute.
Author: Kenneth Baker, is The San Francisco Chronicle’s art critic.
San Francisco Chronicle (CA) -
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Obituary-Gallery-owner-Charles-Campbell-dies-at-5807654.php
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Deceased Name: Charles Campbell.
~*~
*~*
(December 02, 1920 ~ October 02, 1987)
2 December 1920 – 2 October 1987
[Estimated Age at Death: 66 years, 10 months]
***
San Francisco Chronicle (CA) - Thursday, October 8, 1987
Esther Campbell
Services have been held in Missouri for Esther Campbell, 66, co-founder of the Charles Campbell Gallery, who died of cancer last Friday in Joplin, Mo. [Jasper or Newton County, Missouri]
A native of Missouri, Mrs. Campbell moved to San Francisco in 1945 and worked for the Western Pacific Railroad until she opened the gallery at 647 Chestnut Street with her husband.
She is survived by her husband, Charles; a sister, Genive Prauser, of Baxter Springs, Kan., and a brother Carl Cooper, of Kansas City, Mo.
The family suggests memorial donations to the American Cancer Society.
San Francisco Chronicle (CA) - Page: A25.
Thursday, October 8, 1987
Edition: FINAL
Deceased Name: Esther Campbell.
~*~
*~*
Social Security Death Index
Name: Esther C. Campbell
State of Issue: Missouri
Date of Birth: Thursday December 02, 1920
Date of Death: Friday October 02, 1987
Est. Age at Death: 66 years, 10 months
Confirmation: Verified
Last known residence:
City: San Francisco
County: San Francisco
State: California
ZIP Code: 94107
Latitude: 37.7757
Longitude: -122.3952
~*~
*~*
San Francisco Chronicle (CA) - Thursday, October 9, 2014
Obituary: Gallery owner Charles Campbell dies at age 99
By Kenneth Baker Updated 5:23 pm PDT, Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Charles Campbell, a San Francisco gallery owner who represented major Bay Area contemporary artists for more than 60 years, died of natural causes Friday at his San Francisco home. He was 99.
Mr. Campbell became famous locally for showing what he liked, irrespective of fashion or potential profit. He happened to admire and exhibit many artist later identified with the region's signature art movement, Bay Area Figuration. They included Nathan Oliviera (1928-2010), Paul Wonner (1920-2008), Gordon Cook (1927-1985), Theophilus "Bill" Brown (1919-2012), James Weeks (1922-1998) and Joan Brown (1938-1990).
The back room at Mr. Campbell's gallery was long known to locals as a treasure trove of artistic miscellany. There visitors might pore over an ever-changing array of works on paper and small paintings American and European artists both famous and obscure, interspersed with Indian miniatures and the odd Pre-columbian or African artifact.
Nothing comparable exists, or perhaps could exist, in the supercharged and economically polarized art market of today.
Mr. Campbell began his art world career in San Francisco when he opened opened a frame shop in 1947 not far from the San Francisco Art Institute (then known as the California School of Fine Arts).
The school staff had several members, including its president, who were capable jazz musicians. Mr. Campbell's love of jazz led to friendships with them, including David Park (1911-1960), Elmer Bischoff (1916-1991) and Wally Hedrick (1928-2003).
Modest collection
Mr. Campbell soon began to hang their work and that of other artists in his shop and began collecting modestly by purchase and trade, although he lacked the space to show their work properly until he opened the Charles Campbell Gallery in North Beach in 1972.
Mr. Campbell partnered in business with Paul Thiebaud (1960-2010) in 1990. The establishment changed its name to the Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, and began to show a fresh roster of artists, including Wayne Thiebaud and Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993).The partnership ended on friendly terms in 2001, with the business becoming the Paul Thiebaud Gallery.
Mr. Campbell later entered into a less happy collaboration with a former gallery assistant, Steven Lopez, resulting in a legal dispute finally resolved by their friend in common and former San Francisco supervisor and mayoral and presidential candidate, Matt Gonzalez.
Mr. Campbell's absence from his gallery would often mean that he was off traveling the world.
In 1988, he married longtime artist friend Glenna Putt in Nepal, some time after both had lost their spouses.
Raised in Shanghai
Mr. Campbell was born in Santa Cruz into a family of second generation gold miners on Jan. 10, 1915. His parents hitched their fate to that of a mine in Siberia and Mr. Campbell spent his early years there until the mine was expropriated during the Bolshevik Revolution. Mr. Campbell lived the rest of his childhood with his family in Shanghai.
After high school in Shanghai, Mr. Campbell moved to Los Angeles, drawn there by its jazz scene. He became deeply involved in it, working briefly as a driver for blind pianist Art Tatum and, with stenographic skills honed during service in the Coast Guard, recorded extensive conversations with New Orleans jazz eminence Jelly Roll Morton.
Mr. Campbell's involvement with jazz culminated in San Francisco when he became manager of the great trombone player Turk Murphy. They briefly ran a club together, The Italian Villa, where Murphy's was the house band.
Mr. Campbell is survived by his wife; stepson Peter Putt of Santa Cruz; nephew Mike McCann of Seattle; grand-nephew Jerry McCann of Nairobi, Kenya; and grandniece Toni Burton of Aptos.
Gifts or donations in his memory can be made to the San Francisco Art Institute.
Author: Kenneth Baker, is The San Francisco Chronicle’s art critic.
San Francisco Chronicle (CA) -
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Obituary-Gallery-owner-Charles-Campbell-dies-at-5807654.php
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Deceased Name: Charles Campbell.
~*~
*~*
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