Drawing
- Title:
- Monadnock Monarch
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 2009.026.025 a
- Creator:
- Soule, George C. (1914-2008)
Artist - Date:
- 1936
- Description:
- Drawing, Monadnock Monarch, by George C. Soule (1914-2008), 1936. Pencil on paper. Four studies for front page of "Monadnock Monarch" CCC newspaper. Each depicts CCC workers and includes the newspaper title. One includes the words "118 Co. CCC / East Jaffrey, NH". One is dated "March 16, 1936". Unframed.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-10.95 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 in the 118th Company, CCC, East Jaffrey, NH. 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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