Paul Sample and Sylvia Sample in the studio of their home, Pasadena, circa 1935

Item Overview

Title

Paul Sample and Sylvia Sample in the studio of their home, Pasadena, circa 1935

Photographer

Connell, Will, 1898-1961

Date Created

[circa 1935]

Collection

Connell (Will) Papers

Notes

Description

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.
According to the Pasadena City Directory, in 1935 Paul and Sylvia Sample lived at 676 La Loma Road in Pasadena

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Paul Sample. Artist. Portrait. incl w/wife Sylvia. Ca. 1935.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

black-and-white photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Subjects

Artists' studios--California--Pasadena
Artists--American--California--Pasadena

Names

Sample, Paul, 1896-1974
Drury, Sylvia Ann Howland Sample, 1902-1998

Location

California--Pasadena

Longitude

34.134129

Latitude

-118.164358

Resource type

still image