Drawing
- Title:
- Rec Hall
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 2009.026.014 b
- Creator:
- Soule, George C. (1914-2008)
Artist - Date:
- 1936/01
- Description:
- Drawing, Rec Hall, by George C. Soule (1914-2008). 1936. Pencil on paper. Eight character studies of CCC workers. Three sketches are identified in pencil: "Canteen", "Shorty Mencko", and "Richards". Quotation in pencil, bottom left: "Where the populace eat / and Drink, and even where / they Reverence, it is ac- / customed to stink. Nietzsche". Inscribed in pencil, bottom right: "Rec Hall / Jan" (partly cut off when paper was trimmed). Unframed.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-10.9 W-8.45 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
- People:
- Soule, George C. (1914-2008)
- Subjects:
- Camp life, Canteens (Wartime, emergency, etc.)
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