Biography from AskART:
| Born in Charleston, West Virginia, Albert H. Campbell graduated from
engineering school at Brown University in 1853. He then worked as
surveyor-engineer for several railroad surveys in the Southwest and
West including with Lieutenant Whipple's 35th parallel expedition from
Arkansas westward through Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, to
California. On this expedition Heinrich Mollhausen (1825-1905)
was the official artist, but Campbell completed a number of
illustrations. He did landscapes including Mohave villages, and
these sketches as well as many others were in the published report of
the expedition.
Campbell did his landscape sketches of
southern Arizona and California when he was with Lieutenant John G.
Parke on a survey that began in San Jose, went south to San Diego, and
then east along the 32nd parallel to connect with the New Mexico-Texas
survey of Captain John Pope.
He was active in California until
1855, when he settled in the East. In Washington D.C., he was
superintendent of Pacific Wagon Roads, and during the Civil War was
Chief of the Confederacy Topographic Bureau and said to have played an
important role in the South's military strategy.
He spent his
later years in West Virginia as the chief engineer for railroads. He
died in Ravenswood, West Virginia on February 23, 1899.
Sources:
Doris Dawdy, Artists of the American West
Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art
Edan Hughes, Artists in California, 1786-1940 |
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