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[CHINA PAINTING TRADE CATALOGUE]. Campana, D. M.
Designs and Color Schemes. Published Periodically. Series A.
$250
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Chicago, D. M. Campana, ca. 1930s, Oblong small folio, tan wrappers with title on front cover.
[CHINA PAINTING TRADE CATALOGUE]. Campana, D. M. Designs and Color Schemes. Published Periodically. Series A. Six color plates pasted to rectos of gray card stock and text pasted on another two gray sheets and on front and back inside wrappers (i.e. 8 leaves in all, utilizing rectos only and the insides of the wrappers. Oblong small folio, tan wrappers with title on front cover. Chicago: D. M. Campana, circa 1930.
No other copy found, but related china painting volumes published by this company are listed in OCLC.
Domenic Mathews Campana (1871-1956) was born in Italy and as a child was employed painting pottery in Venice. In the early 1890s he emigrated to the United States with only 10 dollars and after a few years was able to go back to Italy and train at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice.
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. Human figures and faces, sometimes painted on out-sized china forms ranging from plaques two feet in diameter to vases four feet high, were his favorite subjects.
Mr. Campana wrote over fifty books which he wrote on art instruction in every field and he won many medals and prizes for his most unusual approach to china painting. His method was to apply the basic colors to be used without detail and fire the piece at about 1400 F, then alternately to add more color and fire until he had .the results he wanted. Reds were the last to be applied so there would be no chance of diminishing the strength of the color through repeated firings.
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