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Drawing

Title:
Overhead Barrack
Object Name:
Drawing
Object ID:
2009.026.013 b
Creator:
Soule, George C. (1914-2008)Artist
Date:
1936
Description:
Drawing, Overhead Barrack, by George C. Soule (1914-2008), 1936. Pencil on paper. 11 character studies of CCC workers. Inscribed in pencil, bottom left (partly cut off when paper was trimmed): "[Overh]ead Barrack / [Jan.] 9, 1936". Three sketches are identified in pencil: "Skipper", "Dominick", and "Johnston's Feet". Unframed.
Material:
Paper
Dimensions:
H-10.95 W-8.55 inches
Provenance:
George C. Soule (1914-2008) of Manchester, NH, was an artist with the Civilian Conservation Corps in New Hampshire, 1935-1937. He was assigned to draw portraits of CCC workers and to document camp life. He studied art at Yale and became an architect in Manchester. He operated the firm of Soule & Associates from the 1950s through the 1980s. He designed schools, churches, houses, and a wide variety of commercial buildings in southern NH and southern New England. The collection was donated by the children of George Soule.
Credit Line:
Gift of Patricia, Cynthia, and Peter Soule
Subjects:
Barracks, Camp life
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