Biography
1922
Born, Bronx, NY.
1936-39
Attends Evander Childs High School, Bronx, NY.
1939
Attends W.P.A. Art Workshop.
1939-43
Attends Cooper Union Day Art School.
1944
Included in Chicago Art Institute Painting Annual.
Museum of Modern Art purchases, "Mythical Bird" (hooked rug).
1945
Studies at Art Student's League.
Summer Scholarship to Cummington School.
Paints in Provincetown.
1946-49
Marries Louis Finkelstein.
Receives Pearl Fund Fellowship, sponsored by Clifford Odets.
Paints in Georgetown, ME.
Birth of daughter, Martha, 1946.
Founding member Pyramid Gallery, a cooperative.
First of two solo shows with Pyramid Gallery.
Paints summers, Westport Island, ME.
Included in Pennsylvania Academy Annual.
1950
Acquires house on Cranberry Island, ME, where she paints subsequent summers for the next 36 years.
1953-54
Fulbright Fellowship to France; paints in Aix-en-Provence.
Travels to ltaly.
First of two solo shows with the Artists' Gallery.
Included in the Whitney Annual.
1956-58
Paints in Italy with husband, Louis Finkelstein.
Lives in Frascati and Spoleto. Travels to France.
Birth of son, Henry, 1958.
1959-62
Solo show at Zabriskie Gallery.
Teaches at the Brooklyn Museum.
Included in the Philadelphia Museum Annual.
1963
Commences teaching at Philadelphia College of Art where she teaches through 1971.
1967-69
Included in Pennsylvania Academy Annual.
Solo show, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME.
1970-77
Paints in Aix-en-Provence, travels to Spain.
Joins faculty of the Yale School of Art, where she teaches until 1986
Commences teaching at the Maryland Institute College of Art, continuing through 1973.
1976
First of ten solo shows, Ingber Gallery.
Commences teaching at the New York Studio School, continuing through 1980.
1978-79
Included the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Annual Exhibition.
Solo show at the New York Studio School.
Acquires house in Stillwater, NJ, where she paints winters and springs through 1986.
1984-86
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Annual Exhibition, Purchase Award.
Solo shows, Swain School of Art, New Bedford, MA, and Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
Teaches at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT.
1987
American Academy and Institute of Arm and Letters Annual Exhibition and Award in Art.
Elected Associate, National Academy of Design.
Dies, New York, July 14.
"Gretna Campbell - Early and Late," Memorial Exhibition, The New York Studio School.
"Last Paintings and Related Works," Ingber Gallery.
1988
Memorial Retrospective Exhibition, School of Art, Yale University.
Solo Exhibition,Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1994
Solo Exhibition,Tibor de Nagy Gallery.
The artist's work is in major museum collections throughout the United States, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Modem Art in New York City.