Painter. Born in Louisville, KY on Sept. 14, 1896. Sample served in the Navy in WWI and then attended Dartmouth College where he was intercollegiate boxing champion. After graduating in 1921, he spent four years in the Adirondacks recuperating from tuberculosis. During this time he became interested in art and studied with Jonas Lie.

In 1926 he moved to Pasadena and taught at USC until 1936. After a European sabbatical, he returned to Vermont in 1938 where he was artist-in-residence at Dartmouth College until retirement in 1962. During the 1920s he painted landscapes and during the 1930s, produced Regionalist works of middle class Americans.

Member: National Academy, 1941; California Art Club; Pasadena Art Association; American Watercolor Society; California Watercolor Society.

Awards: First prize Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1930; Spaulding prize, California Art Club, 1930; Hallgarten prize, National Academy of Design, 1931 and Isador gold medal, 1932; first prize, Los Angeles County Fair, 1931; first prize, Pasadena Art Institute, 1932; first California State Fair, 1932; first prize, Santa Cruz Art League, 1933.

Works held: Redondo Beach, California Post Office; Metropolitan Museum; Springville (UT) Museum; White House, Washington, DC; Brooklyn Museum; Boston Museum; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art; Smithsonian Institute; Art Institute of Chicago; University of Southern California.

(Source: Hughes, Edan Milton, "Artists in California: 1786-1940," San Francisco: Hughes Publishing Company, 1989.)