Drawing
- Title:
- Gravel bank in Rindge
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 2009.026.044 a
- Creator:
- Soule, George C. (1914-2008)
Artist - Date:
- 1936
- Description:
- Drawing, Gravel bank in Rindge, by George C. Soule (1914-2008),1936. Pencil on paper. Five sketches of CCC workers. Largest sketch depicts men with truck, digging in a bank, identified in pencil as "Gravel bank / in Rindge". Other four sketches are studies of individuals. Unframed.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-11 W-8.4 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:
- Trucks, Shovels, Excavation, Excavation sites, Digging
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