1977-06-12 Marshall News Messenger - "Working Worth Over 1,000 Words"

“Working Worth Over 1,000 Words”
 
by Susan Still

Robert Campbell

That a picture's worth more than a thousand words was a lesson Robert Campbell learned at a very early age.
 
Campbell, a 1969 graduate of Marshall High School, has been sketching people and places since he was four years old. And according to his father, Raymond[Randolph] Campbell, it’s all his son has ever wanted to do.
 
“It’s a natural talent,” Campbell says with obvious pride, “something he got from his mama and me.
 
“As a father, there were times when I worried about him. I didn't like it when he quit Stephen F. Austin University without graduating, and I was surprised when he called me from his brother’s house in California and said he was going to stay there and be an artist.
 
“But I just knew it was something he had to do—something he knew he had to do, too. So I've never tried to interfere.”
 
Now living in Hollywood Hills, Calif, the younger Campbell produces art in all mediums for a Los Angeles gallery.
 
“When we were living in Michigan and Robert was just a child, we went to the state fair in Detroit—I believe it was," Campbell recalled
 
“While all the rest of the children were riding the rides and playing games. Robert sat in a tent with some portrait artists and watched them work. All day long,” he added.
 
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