[6] Both her parents had studied art, and one of her sisters was Elizabeth Campbell Warhanik, an artist and one of the founders of Women Painters of Washington.
Volland, 1931) described Campbell as "the artist who knows all about little boys and girls as well as little black dogs with little pink tongues.
"[8] Campbell was the first illustrator of the Dick and Jane series of beginning readers created by Zerna Sharp.
[3][4][5][9] Her watercolors[10] for the series were intended to show "scenes as a child might see the world",[1] including everyday activities[11] such as when "a preschooler tries to give a teddy bear a drink at a water fountain or dress up in their parents' clothes or help mom take the laundry down from the line before the rain starts.
[12] The Dick and Jane illustrations have been criticised for reinforcing class, race and gender stereotypes.