Drawing
- Title:
- Jaffrey Center & Monadnock
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 2009.026.016 a
- Creator:
- Soule, George C. (1914-2008)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Jaffrey, NH
- Date:
- 1936/01/16
- Description:
- Drawing, Jaffrey Center & Monadnock, by George C. Soule (1914-2008), 1936. Pencil on paper. View of Mount Monadnock with trees in foreground and mountain in background. Identified in pencil, lower right: "Jaffrey Center / & Monadnock / Jan. 16, 1936". Pencil notation, lower left: "Too Cold To / Make Water Color of". Two other sketches below; sketch at right is pencil and ink. Unframed.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-11.1 W-8.5 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:
- Mount Monadnock, Trees, Church, Winter
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