Punching the Bag (recto); Landscape (verso)
Paul Sample, American, 1896 - 1974
about 1940-1942
Watercolor over graphite on wove paper
Sheet: 15 5/16 × 11 3/8 in. (38.9 × 28.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the artist, Class of 1920
W.983.34.134ab
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Obverse: Inscribed, in graphite, bottom center: Paul Sample; Reverse: Inscribed, in graphite, bottom center: Paul Sample.
Course History
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Mary Coffey, Winter 2016
Exhibition History
Festival of the Arts; Paul Sample, Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, Vermont, May 26-June 17, 1990.
Paul Sample, Painter of the American Scene, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 4-August 28, 1988.
Paul Sample: Ivy League Regionalist, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, January 18-February 26, 1984.
Points of View, Art History 2, ARTH 2, Winter 2016, Joy Kenseth and Mary Coffey, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 1-March 13, 2016.
Publication History
Robert L. McGrath and Paula F. Glick, Paul Sample: Painter of the American Scene, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1988, no. 52.
Paul Sample: Ivy League Regionalist, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, 1984, p. 45, no. 47, fig. 47.
"Paul Sample", American Artist, April 1942, p. 19.
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, ill. p. 244.
Provenance
The artist; given to Dartmouth College Library; transferred to present collection, 1983
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