PAUL SAMPLE (1869 1974) Beach at Key West

Sale 2696 - Lot 68

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PAUL SAMPLE (1869 - 1974)
Beach at Key West.

Watercolor on paper. 230x310 mm; 9x12 inches. Signed lower right.

Provenance
Private collection, Maryland.

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Paul Sample's works are characterized by their rich simplicity in style and subject. His works depict scenes from his travels throughout the United States.

Sample's childhood was spent moving often with his family and civil engineer father. His college career was interrupted by World War I, when he enlisted in the Naval Reserve and served for two years in the Merchant Marines. Later, Sample would become an artist correspondent for Life magazine, producing illustrations of the front line during World War II. After graduating from Dartmouth in 1920, Sample underwent treatment for tuberculosis. During his recuperation in Saranac Lake, New York, Sample began to train as a painter with artist Jonas Lie. In 1925 Sample was well enough to travel, and took classes at the Greenleaf Art School in New York, the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, and instruction from mentors F. Tolles Chamberlain and Staton MacDonald-Wright, while himself becoming an art instructor. Sample exhibited widely and won several awards and honors for his work. He gained the attention of influential galleries, including Macbeth Gallery, Ferargil Galleries, and Associated American Artists in New York. Sample became Dartmouth's artist in residence in 1938, and settled in New England. After World War II he continued to travel and take commissions for murals.