The Beginner In Oil Painting Published By D. M. Campana Chicago ~ Early Catalog.

This is an undated 12-page staple-bound catalog in which the Chicago-based artist-merchant is pitching a correspondence school course in painting, more substantive instruction books, and oil painting supplies.

Condition: good. Felt-tip price top right front cover. No other writing in this beautifully preserved booklet printed on thin off-white paper.

Typeface, page arrangement artistic style suggest early 1900s, which fits with when Mr. Campana began publishing.

Inventory shelf 2 folder.

The name of D.M. Campana f has been one of the most prominent in the art instruction field since the early 1900s.

The company’s initial specialty was china painting materials. How-to arrt books soon followed.

Marostca, Italy, a town near Venice, was his birthplace. Working in nearby ceramic factories as a child, he learned to decorate pottery, a skill which brought him ready employment when, in his early twenties, he migrated to America—with ten dollars in his pocket. In a few years, he had saved enough money to go back to Venice for training at the Academy di Belle Arti.

His studies completed, he returned to the United States, immediately establishing a reputation as a china painter and teacher of the art in Chicago. His own work was pictorial, in the manner of an oil painting on canvas.

Campana died at the age of eighty-five in December, 1956. His memory lives on in his many fine works and in over fifty books which he wrote on art instruction.