Paul Sample

Paul Sample was never a starving artist. His success came quickly, as soon as he chose art as a career at age 30. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of a construction engineer, Sample grew up mostly in the mid-west. In 1916 he left home for Dartmouth College, where he reportedly slept through his art appreciation course, focusing his attention on football, boxing and playing the saxophone. However, his collegiate career was interrupted by a stint in the Navy at the end of World War I, and soon after graduation he contracted tuberculosis.

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