Drawing
- Title:
- Medical Ward
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 2009.026.037 b
- Creator:
- Soule, George C. (1914-2008)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Burlington, VT
- Date:
- 1936/05/11
- Description:
- Drawing, Medical Ward, by George C. Soule (1914-2008), 1936. Pencil on paper. Four sketches of men at CCC hospital, Fort Ethan Allen, Burlington, VT, Largest sketch, at bottom, identified in pencil as "Medical Ward / May 11, 1936". Middle sketch depicts three men, identified as "Looking into / the sun / (on porch)". Two men in sketch at top right identified as "Joe" and "Nick". Unframed.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-11 W-8.45 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:
- Hospitals, Hospitals, Field, Hospital wards, Patients
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