Sample To Join Faculty
PAUL SAMPLE '20 TO JOIN COLLEGE ART FACULTY NEXT FALL;DARTMOUTH NIGHT ON MARCH 3; COUNCIL NOMINATIONS
Paul Sample 'so, noted American artist, will come to Dartmouth next fall to live and to carry on his creative work as "Artist in Residence," it was announced by President Hopkins late last month. Mr. Sample will not give formal classroom instruction, but his studio in the Carpenter Art Building will be open to all students who wish to watch him paint or who wish to get advice about their own work and interests in painting and drawing.
Mr. Sample, whose paintings of contemporary life now hang in some of the foremost American galleries, has resided in California since 1925. There he has been associated with the art department of the University of Southern California, first as lecturer and instructor, and since 1932 as associate professor. At the present time he is abroad on sabbatical leave.
In his new position at Dartmouth, Mr. Sample will be intimately associated with the Department of Art, but his duties will be entirely flexible and informal, allowing him whatever measure of privacy he may want for his own creative work. It is expected that he will not only give practical advice with regard to painting and drawing, but that he will also contribute to the integration of art knowledge with the activity of art, and will guide undergraduates in projects corollary to the art curriculum of the College.
In commenting upon Mr. Sample's com-
ing to Dartmouth, Dean Bill said, "One of the finest things a college can do for its undergraduates is to give them an abiding interest in some worthwhile avocation which they can develop after graduation. Assuming that men get interested in creative art largely through observing a creative artist in action, the College has made arrangements to bring the distinguished American artist, Paul Sample, to Hanover to provide that influence."
Prof. Churchill P. Lathrop, chairman of the Department of Art and Archaeology, declared that it would be difficult to exaggerate the potentiality of Mr. Sample's influence at Dartmouth. "Sample at work here in Hanover is sure to be a heallhy stimulus to and a sustaining influence upon all undergraduate activity in the visual arts," he said. "As a Dartmouth alumnus, as a man of varied interests and strong personality, and as an artist of the contemporary, experimental, genuinely American point of view, he comes close to being the ideal painter for association with Dartmouth at the present time."
METROPOLITAN PURCHASES WORK
Mr. Sample's famous painting, "Janitor's Holiday," was purchased by the Metropolitan Museum last March. This work, like many of his other paintings, was done in Vermont, where he and his wife, the former Sylvia Anne Howland of Montpelier, spend their summers. Mr. Sample's "The River" was recently hung in the White House in Washington, and his wellknown "Church Supper" is in the Springfield (Mass.) Museum. Other paintings are in the San Diego Museum, the Minneapolis Museum, the Wood Art Museum, the Canajoharie Museum, the Foundation of Western Art, and in a number of colleges and universities, including Swarthmore, Southern California and Nebraska.
Mr. Sample's many honors in the art world have included the Temple Gold Medal of Pennsylvania Academy, the Isador Gold Medal and the Hallgarten Prize of the National Academy of Design, Honorable Mention at the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh, Honorable Mention at the Chicago Art Institute, the Purchase Prize of the San Diego Museum, the Mabury and Keith-Spaulding Prizes of the California Art Club, and First Prizes at the Los Angeles Museum, the Oakland Museum, the Santa Cruz Art Association, and the Pasadena Art Institute. He has had several one-man shows at the Ferargil Galleries in New York.
He is an Associate of the National Academy of Design, an honorary member and past president of the California Art Club, a member of the Artist Congress, and an honorary member of Delta Phi Delta, professorial art society.
As an undergraduate at Dartmouth, Mr. Sample played on the varsity basketball team and was heavyweight boxing champion of the college. He also played on the freshman football and basketball teams, was a member of the varsity football squad, and played saxophone in the Barbary Coast Orchestra. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and of Casque and Gauntlet senior society. He saw overseas service with the United States Navy during the World War, and returned to college to receive his B.S. degree in 1921. In June, 1936, Dartmouth conferred upon Mr. Sample the honorary degree of Master of Arts.
Mrs. Sample is the daughter of Fred A. Howland '87 of Montpelier, retired president of the National Life Insurance Company and an Alumni Trustee of Dartmouth College from 1922 to 1932.
PAUL SAMPLE '20 who will give informal art instruction atDartmouth, starting next fall.
