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David Campbell is starting his sixth decade of painting the city of Somerville.  He’s a house painter – and a streets painter, and a factory-and-junkyard painter, a chain-link fence painter, a roofs and roads and trestles painter.  And above all of these things, he paints skies: strong, pigeon-gray – sometimes smoke-spewed – tumultuous cloudy skies, powerful enough to speed you along on your walk, big enough to remind you that all this stuff down here is really pretty small in the scheme of things. The Somerville Museum has gathered nearly two dozen of Campbell’s realist paintings for a special retrospective entitled “The Art of Observation,” curated by local printmaker and Brickbottom Gallery coordinator Debra Olin.  Campbell is already well-known in art circles – much more than just a “hometown hero” – with works featured at the Smithsonian, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Boston Athenaeum and included in the permanent collections of the Mu

United statesMuseum of fine artsMaine college of artSan franciscoCharan devereauxDavid campbellDebra olinMuseum of artSomerville arts councilSan francisco museum of modern artSomerville museumMass college of artArt institute of chicagoBrickbottom gallerySan francisco museumModern art