Drawing

Title:

Untitled

Object Name:

Drawing

Object ID:

2009.026.107

Creator:

Soule, George C. (1914-2008)Artist

Date:

circa 1940

Description:

Drawing, untitled portrait of two young women, by George C. Soule (1914-2008) c. 1940. Pastel crayon on brown paper. Young woman at lower left with brow eyes; wearing blond hair up, and an oversized white collar. Young woman at upper right with brown eyes; wearing blond hair down, and an oversized white collar. Possibly a study of the same woman. Two pencil sketches of sitters on reverse. Unsigned. Unframed.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-16.8 W-13.7 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:

Portrait drawings, Pastel drawings