Sample Has His Largest Exhibition

The largest and most comprehensive showing of the work of Paul Sample '20 gave admirers of his paintings the opportunity this summer to see most of his better known works at the Currier Gallery of Art in Manchester, N. H. A total of 89 paintings by Dartmouth's Artist-in-Residence were collected from 47 museums, art galleries, colleges, individual collectors and business con cerns to make the Retrospective Exhibition possible.

Numbered among the 56 oils and 29 water colors, were three oil paintings from Dartmouth. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, lent the oil, "Janitor's Holiday," and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Art Institute of Chicago contributed the watercolors, "Real Wealth" and "The Winding River," respectively. "San Pedro Harbor," a Sample painting which has been hanging in the White House for many years, was also made available for the display.

Subjects ranged from the western landscapes of his early years to "the New Hampshire and Vermont scenes of familiar life which he has done by the score since he became a New Englander by adoption. Also included was the Pacific War group which he completed when he was artist-correspondent for Life Magazine. The latter comprises a realistic record of naval life on island outposts, in submarines, on carrier decks, and ac home bases.

Reviewers found a "simple, truthful, harmonious knowledge of people and nature" and a "superb sense of design" basic to all phases of Sample's painting.

THE ARTIST SKETCHING on the Miramichi, New Brunswick, on a salmon fishing trip this summer.