Drawing

Title:

Kemp Reading Snappy Stories / Jackass Cart

Object Name:

Drawing

Object ID:

2009.026.038 a

Creator:

Soule, George C. (1914-2008)Artist

Place of Origin:

Burlington, VT

Date:

1936/05

Description:

Drawing, Kemp Reading Snappy Stories and Jackass Cart, by George C. Soule (1914-2008), 1936. Pencil on paper. Three sketches at CCC hospital, Fort Ethan Allen, Burlington, VT. Top sketch depicts man reading in bed, identified in pencil as "Kemp Reading / Snappy Stories / Sun. Night / May 10". Below that is sketch of mules pulling wagon, identified as "Jackass Cart / Fort Ethan Allan / May 11; wagon marked "GMC" on side. At bottom left is small sketch of bare feet, dated "May 13". Unframed.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-11 W-8.35 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, Carts & wagons, Mules, Feet, Reading