Landscape

Paul Sample, American, 1896 - 1974

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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.983.34.134b

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.

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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