Remember Now The Days of Thy Youth
Paul Sample, American, 1896 - 1974
1950
Oil on canvas
Overall: 34 × 48 in. (86.4 × 121.9 cm)
Frame: 43 × 57 in. (109.2 × 144.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Frank L. Harrington, Class of 1924
P.962.80
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, lower right: PAUL SAMPLE
Exhibition History
American Painting Today, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1950, cat. no. 48.
Festival of the Arts; Paul Sample, Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, Vermont, May 26-June 17, 1990.
Introduction to the History of Art II, 1500 to present, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ArtH2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 24-March 14, 2004.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 12, 2014.
New Hampshire Art, New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, New Hampshire, May 1-June 30, 1966.
Palmer Lounge, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 1-30, 1974.
Paul Sample, Montshire Museum of Science, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 27-June 1, 1976.
Paul Sample: Ivy League Regionalist, The Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, January 18-February 26, 1984.
Paul Sample: Painter of the American Scene, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 4-August 28, 1988.
Perception and Belief, Outreach Program, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October-November 1982.
Recent Paintings by Paul Sample, Native of Kentucky, J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, March 24-April 22, 1951.
Woodstock Unitarian Church, Woodstock, Vermont, July 4, 1977.
Publication History
Various Authors, Prentice-Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes, The American Experience, ed. by Ellen Bowler, etc., Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., a Viacom Company, 1999, 1,228 pp., ill. p. 695.
Upper Valley Community Land Trust, Community Lands or Annual Report or Both, 88/89
Robert L. McGrath and Paula F. Glick, Paul Sample: Painter of the American Scene, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1988, no. 48.
Justus Bier, "Paul Sample: A Native of Louisville get a One-Man Exhibition," The Courrier-Journal Magazine, April 22, 1951, ill. p. 22.
"American Painting Today: A National Competitive Exhibition," The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1950 (no cat. no.; not illustrated)
Cecile Whiting, "A New England Lament: Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand in the 1940s," Art Bulletin, December 2007, Volume LXXXIX, Number4, New York, NY: College Art Association, pp. 797-814, ill. p. 806, figure 10.
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. 14.
Provenance
The artist (1896-1974), Norwich, Vermont; Frank Leighton Harrington, Sr. (1902-1988), Worcester, Massachusetts; given to present colleciton, 1962.
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