Band Concert
Paul Sample, American, 1896 - 1974
about 1934-1935
Oil on canvas
Overall: 26 1/2 × 40 1/4 in. (67.3 × 102.2 cm)
Frame: 32 1/2 × 45 1/2 in. (82.6 × 115.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Marjorie Van Antwerp in memory of her husband, Kent McKinley, Class of 1921
P.993.33
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, lower right: PAUL SAMPLE; inscribed, in graphite, on stretcher: "BAND CONCERT" PAUL SAMPLE PASADENA, CAL.; Old label on stretcher: Artist ... Paul Sample / ...Band Concert / [remainder of label torn]; fragment of another exhibition label on frame, covered by tape:...CONCERT; stretcher stamped: 43 [illegible initial] ANDERSON CO. / BROOKLYN N.Y.; label formerly affixed on paper backing; Restoratively yours, /July 1983 by [signature] / D. Wagner Appleton / Phone: 355-2661; several notation on stretcher, in various hands: 10P 23 N7 36/1421 Box 3 Box 18-2 6919
Exhibition History
American Paintings from the Dartmouth Collection, 1910-1960, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 17-April 12, 1998.
Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 5, 1994-February 6, 1995, in conjunction with the exhibition Looking for America: Prints of Rural Life from the 1930's and 1940's, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 3, 1994-March 5, 1995.
Forty-Seventh Annual Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1936, no. 178.
Grand Concert! New Hampshire Town Bands, New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, New Hampshire, March 29, 1996-April 13, 1997.
Paul Sample, Ferargil Galleries, New York, New York, November 15-27, 1937 (no. 6).
Paul Sample, The Picture Gallery, Saint-Gaudens Memorial, Cornish, New Hampshire, July 2-August 1, 1949, no. 14.
Publication History
Life, "From Football and Boxing to Painting is the Strange Career of Paul Sample," November 15, 1937.
Provenance
Associated American Artists; Kent McKinley [donor's first husband], 1949; Marjorie Van Antwerp, Floridan; given to present collection, 1993.
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