Drawing
- Title:
- Rec Hall
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 2009.026.034 a
- Creator:
- Soule, George C. (1914-2008)
Artist - Date:
- 1936/04/17
- Description:
- Drawing, Rec Hall, by George C. Soule (1914-2008), 1936. Pencil on paper. 11 sketches of CCC workers in recreation hall. Six sketches depict men playing pool. Identified in pencil, upper right, as "Rec Hall / April 17, 19[36]" (partly cut off). Unframed.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-11.1 W-8.55 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)
- Subjects:
- Camp life, Recreation rooms, Pool halls, Pool, Billiards, Billiard rooms
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