Background
Sample, Paul Starrett was born on September 14, 1896 in Louisville. Son of Wilbur Stevenson and Effie Averille (Madden) Sample.
Sample, Paul Starrett was born on September 14, 1896 in Louisville. Son of Wilbur Stevenson and Effie Averille (Madden) Sample.
After having moved across the country with 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 contracted tuberculosis.
1 son, Timothy. Associate professor fine arts, University of Southern California, 1926-1938. Artist in residence Dartmouth, 1938-1962. War correspondent Life magazine, World World World War World War II
Representative in Metropolitan Museum of Art, Springfield (Massachusetts) Museum Fine Arts, U. Iceland, Reykjavik, Swarthmore College, University of Minnesota, University of Southern California, War Department, Washington, Cornell Univercity, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, Miami (Florida) University, San Diego Museum, U. Nebraska, Brooklyn Museum, Williams College, Addison Gallery, Andover, Massachusetts, Butler The Art Institute of Chicago, Youngstown, O., Joslyn Memorial, Omaha, Brooks Memorial, Memphis, Boston Museum Fine Arts, Museum Art, Providence, Colgate University, Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago, Art Museum New Britain (Connecticut), Dartmouth, Sweet Museum, Portland, Maine, Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, Parrish Museum (Long Island), High Museum Art, Atlanta, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, numerous others
Served from quartermaster to ensign, United States Naval Reserve, 1918-1919. Member American Water Color Society, California Art Association (past president), Delta Kappa Epsilon, Casque and Gauntlet. Clubs: Century Association, Lotos, Anglers (New York City).
Married Sylvia Anne Howland, December, 1928.