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Deserted House
Paul Starrett Sample
American Art
Unlike many American Scene painters, Paul Sample was associated with multiple regions (Southern California and New England) and both urban and rural subjects. His pictures were highly regarded for their powerfully direct compositions that, like this barren scene, often struck a note of Depression-era melancholy. As one Art News critic observed in 1934, “[Sample] paints simply and conservatively, omitting startling devices . . . and unusual fabrications of color. There is a frank open quality to his work which is rather winning after much current showmanship and affectation.”
MEDIUM
Watercolor with graphite underdrawing and opaque watercolor highlights on white, heavy weight, moderately textured handmade wove paper made from multiple laminated sheets
DATES
1938
DIMENSIONS
Sheet: 11 1/4 x 15 3/8 in. (28.6 x 39.1 cm)
Frame: 17 7/8 x 23 7/8 x 1 1/2 in. (45.4 x 60.6 x 3.8 cm) (show scale)
MARKINGS
Blind embossment from paper manufacturer in lower right corner: "VERITABLE PAPIER / FIN / *D'ARCHES*"
SIGNATURE
Signed lower left: "Paul Sample"
COLLECTIONS
American Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
40.380
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Friends of Southern Vermont Artists, Inc.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Paul Starrett Sample (American, 1896–1974). Deserted House, 1938. Watercolor with graphite underdrawing and opaque watercolor highlights on white, heavy weight, moderately textured handmade wove paper made from multiple laminated sheets, Sheet: 11 1/4 x 15 3/8 in. (28.6 x 39.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Friends of Southern Vermont Artists, Inc., 40.380. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 40.380_PS2.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 40.380_PS2.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2006
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