Description
The back of the print is stamped “Compliments of James Campion,” a reference to Campion’s, a longtime Hanover clothing store and Dartmouth staple that sold clothing marketed to students and alumni from 1906 to 2010. Its motto was,”Not just a haberdashery, a Dartmouth tradition.” Campions went out of business in 1991. In 1993, part of the family that owned the business opened a new clothing store focusing on higher-end fashion for women which closed in 2010.
Dartmouth College, founded in 1769, began as Moor’s Indian Charity School in Lebanon, Connecticut, with the mission to educate Native Americans. It was chartered as Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, by Reverend Eleazar Wheelock, becoming one of the nine colonial colleges established before the American Revolution. While initially focused on Native American education, the college later expanded its focus and eventually became a prestigious Ivy League university.
Arthur Kelly David Healy, a mid-20th-century watercolorist and illustrator, was born and educated at Princeton with further study in Fontainebleau, France. Healy spent most of his career between New York, Vermont, and California, and exhibited in venues like the California Watercolor Society and taught at Middlebury College, producing dynamic landscapes and wildlife paintings, and illustrations. His style was characterized by loosely brushed blocks of color against unpainted areas.
Condition: Generally very good, recently professionally cleaned and deacidified, with only light remaining toning, handling, wear. Some faint remaining discolorations in outer what margins.
References
“Arthur Kelly David Healy.” Prabook. https://prabook.com/web/arthur_kelly_david.healy/1040541?utm_source=chatgpt.com (16 July 2025).
“Campion Store.” Archives and Manuscripts. https://archives-manuscripts.dartmouth.edu/agents/corporate_entities/600. (16 July 2025).
“Liberal Arts at the Core.” Dartmouth. https://home.dartmouth.edu/about. (16 July 2025).
“Memories of Arthur Healy from His Students.” Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History. https://www.henrysheldonmuseum.org/healy-student-memories (18 August 2025).
