Rural Delivery
Paul Sample, American, 1896 - 1974
about 1948
Lithograph on wove paper
Image: 9 1/8 × 13 3/16 in. (23.1 × 33.5 cm)
Sheet: 11 15/16 × 15 7/8 in. (30.3 × 40.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
PR.949.104
Publisher
Associated American Artists, New York
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, lower right margin: Paul Sample
Exhibition History
Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 1974.
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.
Paul Sample, Montshire Musuem of Science, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 27-June 1, 1976.
Paul Sample, Painter of the American Scene, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 4-August 28, 1988.
Winter in Rural America, Prints from the 1930's and 1940's,[American Works on Paper wall], Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 1-May 30, 2011.
Publication History
Upper Valley Magazine Preview of the Arts, January/February 1995,Van Etten, Inc., 1995, ill. p. 64
Barbara J. MacAdam, Looking for America: Prints of Rural Life from the 1930s and 1940s, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1994, listed no. 52.
Robert L. McGrath and Paula F. Glick, Paul Sample: Painter of the American Scene, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1988, no. 58.
Provenance
Associated American Artists, New York; sold to present collection, 1949.
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