Two Men Seated with Small Town Backdrop, California (recto); Railroad Scene (verso)
Paul Sample, American, 1896 - 1974
1935
Watercolor over graphite on heavy wove paper
Sheet: 11 1/4 × 15 3/8 in. (28.6 × 39 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the artist, Class of 1920
W.983.34.225ab
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in graphite, bottom right: Paul Sample/ Calif. 35.
Exhibition History
California Regionalism, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, June 1-August 30, 1988.
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.
Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005.
Publication History
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, pp. 36, ill. p. 36, fig. 35, 244.
Provenance
The artist; given to Dartmouth College Library; transferred to present collection, 1983
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