Drawing

Title:

Radio Audience

Object Name:

Drawing

Object ID:

2009.026.052 a

Creator:

Soule, George C. (1914-2008)Artist

Date:

1936

Description:

Drawing, Radio Audience, by George C. Soule (1914-2008), 1936. Pencil on paper. 12 sketches of CCC workers listening to radio. Probably in recreation hall. One man seated next to radio, identified as "operator". Titled in pencil, lower left, "[Ra]dio Audience in / [?]" (missing letters cut off). Unsigned. Unframed.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-11.1 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 later worked as an artist with the WPA until 1942, and then as a draftsman at the Manchester Army Air Base. 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, Radios