Anderson Campbell Art Appraisals (formerly Anderson Shea Art Appraisals) is a Santa Barbara-based art appraisal firm specializing in appraising American paintings, drawings, and sculpture -- with unique expertise in California art.
Alissa Anderson Campbell is a Santa Barbara art appraiser, art historian,and consulting curator -- specializing in California art history. Campbell has been a leading art appraiser in Santa Barbara for over 15 years -- having worked in museums, galleries, and auction houses in New York, California, and Mexico. Anderson Campbell has a BA from UC Santa Barbara and a MA at Christie's Education, New York.
Anderson Campbell Art Appraisals is dedicated to assisting collectors protect and manage fine art collections throughout Southern California including Santa Barbara, Ventura, Santa Ynez, San Luis Obispo.
Anderson Campbell Art Appraisals assists private art collectors -- as well as numerous art museums and other institutions including the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, La Purisima California Mission, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, amongst others.
For information about having your art appraised, please see our Appraisal Services page. We prepare appraisal for Fair Market Value, Resale, Estate Planning, Insurance/Retail Replacement Value (fire or loss.)
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As a scholar of California art, Alissa Anderson Campbell recently served as Guest Curator of the Laguna Art Museum's 2022 exhibition "Francis DeErdely: Striking Figures." Campbell is the leading expert on Francis De Erdely's work and the Laguna exhibition was based on Campbell's primary research and first book on the California artist. This was the first major retrospective and biography on Francis DeErdely. Campbell authored the exhibition catalog "Francis De Erdely: Striking Figures" for the Laguna Art Museum.
"Striking Figures: Francis DeErdely" (published by Laguna Art Museum) by Alissa Anderson Campbell was the first major book written about one of California's most influential modern artists and teachers of the mid-century. As part of the exhibition, Campbell gave a lecture called Francis DeErdely: Focus on the Figure at the Laguna Art Museum on Francis De Erdely and his impact on the California modern art scene of Southern California.
Alissa Anderson Campbell has authored multiple books and catalogs in the field of California art, with a unique expertise in California women artists. She authored the book, "Nell Brooker Mayhew: Paintings on Paper" (2005, Balcony Press/Chronicle Books) . Her primary research was the basis of "Women Artists of the Central [California] Coast: 1875-1950" (Sullivan Goss), one of the first encyclopedic works of women working in Southern California during this period. Campbell has also written number of exhibition catalogs, art reviews, and criticism in the field of American art.
Anderson Campbell is also a consulting curator specializing in California art and served as guest curator of the California Nature Art Museum’s "Milford Zornes: An American Artist" as well the Wildling Museum’s exhibition "Members Collect III " which included the work of California artists including Edgar Payne. Campbell also served on the California Nature Art Museum's Collection and Exhibition Committee for many years.
