Drawing
- Title:
- Olsen's Crew Putting up a shack
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 2009.026.024 a
- Creator:
- Soule, George C. (1914-2008)
Artist - Date:
- 1936
- Description:
- Drawing, Olsen's Crew Putting up a shack, by George C. Soule (1914-2008), 1936. Pencil on paper. Five sketches of CCC activities. Largest sketch, at bottom right, depicts men working on a building foundation, identified in pencil as "Olsen's Crew Putting up / a shack / Mar 10, 1936". Sketch of cabin at bottom left, identified as "[?]ry's / [Ca]mp" (partly cut off). Sketch of men playing cards at top right, "Carl / & Theroux". Man at top left. Unframed.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-11.1 W-8.6 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, Cards, Card games, Card playing, Camps, Shacks, Building construction
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