Approach to White River
Paul Sample, American, 1896 - 1974
1946
Transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on heavy wove paper
Sheet: 15 3/8 × 22 5/8 in. (39 × 57.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the artist, Class of 1920, in memory of his friend Albert Inskip Dickerson, Class of 1930 and Dean of Freshmen, 1956-1972
W.972.222
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in watercolor, lower left: Paul Sample
Exhibition History
American Works on Paper to 1950: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 22-December 9, 2007.
Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth Collge, Hanover, New Hampshire, (no cat.), June 1974.
Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 24-September 11, 2005; National Academy Museum, New York City, New York, October 20-December 31, 2005.
North Country Landscapes: Exhibit of Watercolors, Oils, Lithographs, and Sketches by Paul Sample, Montshire Museum of Science, Hanover, New Hampshire, no. 4, April 27-June 1, 1976.
Paul Sample, Associated American Artists Galleries, New York, New York, (no cat.), April 11-30, (probably) 1949.
Paul Sample, Publick House, Sturbridge, Massachusetts, no. 9, 1950.
Recent Paintings by Paul Sample, Native of Kentucky, J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, March 24-April 22, 1951.
Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, (no cat.?), 1954.
Watercolors by Paul Sample, Dartmouth Class of 1920, Israel Sack Gallery [American Works on Paper wall], Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 17-May 18, 2014.
Publication History
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. 188, 270, ill. p. 189, no. 63.
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. 28.
Provenance
The artist; given to present collection, 1972.
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