Santa Fe Station
Paul Sample, American, 1896 - 1974
about 1935
Watercolor over graphite on textured (J. Whatman) paper
Sheet: 12 3/8 × 19 1/2 in. (31.4 × 49.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the artist, Class of 1920
W.983.34.123
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, bottom left: Paul Sample; inscribed, on reverse, in graphite, top center: Santa Fe Station- Paul Sample/ not for sale/ $175 (crossed out).
Exhibition History
Coastline to Skyline: The Philip H. Greene Gift of California Watercolors, 1930-1960, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 11, 2008-January 4, 2009.
Fifteenth International Watercolor Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1936, no. 435.
Paul Sample, Painter of the American Scene, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth Collge, 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.
Publication History
Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, California Art: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media, Los Angeles: Dustin Publications, 1998, ill. p. 301
Ruth Lilly Westphal and Janet Blake Dominik, American Scene Painting; California, 1930's and 1940's, Westphal Publishing, 1991, p. 41.
Robert L. McGrath and Paula F. Glick, Paul Sample: Painter of the American Scene, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1988, no. 54.
Paul Sample: Ivy League Regionalist, University of Miami, 1984, p. 45, fig. 48.
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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