Drawing
- Title:
- Untitled
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 2009.026.024 b
- Creator:
- Soule, George C. (1914-2008)
Artist - Date:
- 1936
- Description:
- Drawing, untitled, by George C. Soule (1914-2008), 1936. Pencil on paper. Nine sketches of CCC workers. Six men are identified by name, including Bill, LaMarche, DaCosta, and Theroux. Also small sketch of a baby's head, upper right corner. Dated, bottom left, "[March 1]4, 1936" (partly cut off). 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)
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