"Sleeping Farmer" Oil on paperboard, 7 x 10 $5,000

As a young man, Paul lived in many parts of the country and was an athlete and a musician at Dartmouth College, being a good boxer and saxophonist. His education was interrupted by a tour of duty in the Navy. After the war, he graduated from Dartmouth. He then was diagnosed with TB, and spent four years in a Sanitarium in the Adirondack Mountains where he decided he wanted to be a painter. Once recovered from his illness, he became a member of the faculty at the University of Southern California teaching art. In 1938, he moved back home to New England, and became an artist in residence at Dartmouth. In the early 1940's he was considered by Life Magazine to be one of the foremost painters in America, and profiles of his work appeared in Art News, Esquire, Country Gentleman and American Artist. Rural New England style dominated his work. He died at his home in Vermont in 1974.

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