Will Bond
Paul Sample, American, 1896 - 1974
1940
Oil on canvas
Overall: 30 × 25 in. (76.2 × 63.5 cm)
Frame: 35 1/2 × 30 1/2 in. (90.2 × 77.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the artist, Class of 1920, in memory of his brother, Donald M. Sample, Class of 1921
P.943.126.2
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, lower left, Paul Sample
Course History
WRIT 5, Expository Writing, William Craig, Winter 2014
Exhibition History
American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-December 9, 2007.
American Viewpoints: Painting and Sculpture from the Hood Museum of Art, Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California, May 5-August 31, 2003.
Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 1-June 30, 1974.
Festival of the Arts; Paul Sample, Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, Vermont, May 26-June 17, 1990.
In Residence: Contemporary Art at Dartmouth, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 18-July 6, 2014.
Paul Sample: Ivy Leage Regionalist, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, January 18-February 26, 1984.
Paul Sample: Painter of the American Scene, Hoodd Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 4-August 28, 1988.
Recent Paintings by Paul Sample, Native of Kentucky, J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, March 24-April 22, 1951.
Publication History
Edie Clark, Pure Vermont, Yankee Magazine, October 1996, Dublin: Yankee Publishing Incorporated, 1996, p. 69 and p. 3 inside cover
Robert L. McGrath and Paula F. Glick, Paul Sample: Painter of the American Scene, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1988, no. 38.
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, pp. 186, ill. p. 186, fig. 90.
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 104, no. 79.
Recent Paintings by Paul Sample, Native of Kentucky, Louisville, Kentucky: J.B. Speed Art Museum Catalogue No. 124, Art Resources of Kentucky Series, 1951, no. 26.
Michael R. Taylor and Gerald Auten, In Residence: Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2013, ill. p. 36 , no. 18
The Norwich History Book Committee, Norwich, Vermont: A History, The Norwich Historical Society, 2012, ill. p. 220.
Provenance
The artist (1896-1974), Norwich, Vermont; given to present collection, 1943.
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