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Labrador Family (c.1956)
Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches, signed lower right.
Provenance: Grand Central Gallery, NY.
In a January 1959 letter to the purchaser of this painting, Sample discusses the work as his general response to the several expeditions he made to the Hopedale area of Labrador, Canada. "The painting is essentially of the loneliness, silence, and peace of that forbidding country."
