Church Interior with Sculpted Figure of Mary (recto); Figure Sketch for "Field Hospital in a Church (Delirium Is Our Best Deceiver)" (verso)
Paul Sample, American, 1896 - 1974
about 1944
Graphite on wove paper
Sheet: 11 15/16 × 17 15/16 in. (30.3 × 45.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the artist, Class of 1920
D.983.34.269ab
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in graphite, top left: Explosion of (?) charges by Empirs / injured 4 in same (?).
Exhibition History
Paul Sample, Painter of the American Scene, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 4-August 28, 1988.
Publication History
Robert L. McGrath and Paula F. Glick, Paul Sample: Painter of the American Scene, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1988, not numbered, adjacent to no. 45.
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. 243.
Provenance
The artist; given to Dartmouth College Library; transferred to present collection, 1983
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