College Years

Clad in a smock, Janice paints a portrait of Earl Bryant.

Mary Wands Campbell, Janice's mother.

Janice's father, Herbert Campbell

Janice's younger brother, Harrison Sherwood Campbell.....nickname, Shrimp. The name stuck, even when he towered over Janice at six feet tall.

"Painted from life", a somewhat stylized portrait of Harry. College campuses around the country were losing their male students to the military. Harrison was a radio operator on a ship in the Pacific. Nancy Storelli and Butch Tolbert were likely neighbor children, sketched by Janice while home from college. No scrap of paper in my grandparentls house went unused. Even when I was a child, the envelopes of incoming mail were opened flat to be used for scratch paper.
















This gentleman always provokes comment. I think he was simply another one of the many models who posed for the painting classes at Syracuse.


Probably the most important part of her education at Syracuse was life drawing and portraiture. She did many charcoal portraits as her mother had done some twenty years earlier when she, too, attanded Syracuse.


This painting is of my mother's roommate, Jean Rogers Solenson.



This oil portrait was done while Janice was studying under Louis Bouche at the Art Student's League in New York City. Model unknown.

Another charcoal portrait from SU. Notice the grade in the lower right corner!

The above two are typical of her work at SU.

At Syracuse, drawing was paramount.

Janice, at home in East Athens, amid her mother's Glads.