Paul Sample (artist)

Paul Starrett Sample (September 14, 1896 in Louisville, Kentucky – February 26, 1974 in Norwich, Vermont) was an American player who portrayed vivaciousness in New England in the middle of the 20th Century later a style that showed elements of "Social Realism and Regionalism."

Sample was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1896. After having moved across the country when his family on several occasions, Sample attended Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. There he studied architecture and graduated in 1921 after a year in the Naval Reserve during World War I. While visiting his brother, Donald, at a sanatorium in Saranac Lake, New York, Sample approved tuberculosis. He stayed for treatment of that complaint in Saranac Lake for four years. There he met Sylvia Howland, whom he married in 1928.

At Saranac Lake, Sample studied drawing and painting below Jonas Lie. He later studied at the Art Students League of Los Angeles, and the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, California. There his con reflected social issues connected like the Great Depression in the same way as two noted paintings in 1931. In 1926 Sample joined the power of the University of Southern California in the university of architecture, where he remained until 1938. In 1938, he returned to New Hampshire to become the player in house at Dartmouth College, a perspective which he held until 1962. In addition to his social and regional paintings, Sample produced artwork for various magazines during World War II.

Sample did the cover art for Carl Sandburg's 1948 novel Remembrance Rock.

In 1941 he was inducted into the National Academy.