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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. According to the Pasadena City Directory, in 1935 Paul and Sylvia Sample lived at 676 La Loma Road in Pasadena Paul Starrett Sample was an American artist who portrayed life in New England in the middle of the 20th Century with a style that showed elements of Social Realism and Regionalism. He went to Los Angeles in the 1920's to study at Otis Art Institute, and was on the faculty of the University of Southern California in the school of architecture from 1926 to 1938, when he left to assume a teaching position at Dartmouth College. Photograph of Paul Sample working on a painting on an easel in the studio at his Pasadena home. His wife Sylvia Sample is seated on a studio couch with a dog. Paintings are visible leaning against the window behind them and on the wall on the right. Text from negative sleeve: Paul Sample. Artist. Portrait. incl w/wife Sylvia. Ca. 1935.
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