Among Corps’ elders, Snyder a prolific artist

In author Kathleen Duxbury’s research into Civilian Conservation Corps artist George Gordon Snyder, she discovered specific mentions of oil paintings Snyder created, almost 30 done while he was assigned to Petit Jean.

“He was prolific - which is amazing to me because he was older than Franklin Delano Roosevelt - and worked more than the required 40 hours a week,” Duxbury says of Snyder.

Duxbury uncovered a number of the titles of artwork in her research. What became of these other works?

Public Works of Art Project, December 1933-June 1934

Newcomer - presented to Arkansas Gov. J. M. Futrell.

CCC art program, Jan. 23, 1935-Sept. 30, 1937

Devil’s Den State Park

The Bridge Builders. This painting is in the Smithsonian Institution’s collection and was described by Snyder as “The Bridal Path Bridge” and depicts men completing a wooden bridge.

Other works painted at Devil’s Den are Moving a Rock; The Cross-Cut Saw; Priming the Pump; The Dead Oak; Rocks in the Woods; Men Sawing Wood (allocated to the Treasury Department); Driving Sheet Pileing;Placing the Stone; Hooking on a Rock; Building a Pier; Rocks in the Woods; Rocks on Gorge Creek; Rocks on Lee Creek; Hills Near West Fork; Looking Toward the Gorge; Persimmons and Shumack; The Ledge By the Creek; The Old Stump; Morning, Gulphia Creek; Evening, Gulphia Creek; Building the Dam; At Work on the Dam; The Leaning Tree; Study - Light and Shade; The Ford; Morning - Lee Creek; An Ozark Vista; Cliff and Hill; Park Bridal Path; Man of the Hills; Path to the Crevices; and The Road Builders.

Petit Jean State Park

View From Lodge (now at Mather Lodge), Section of the Lodge (now at Mather Lodge); The Bridge; Through the Lodge Porch; The Palisades; The Lookout House; The Ledge; Canyon and Palisades; Rocks; Over Carden Bottoms; Distant Ledge; The Road to Blue Hole; Canyon in Spring; Dogwood in Carden Bottoms; Woods in Spring; Spring; Petit Jean Canyon; Over the Brow; Canyon View; The Old Man of the Hills; Cedar Falls; The Stone Bridge, Winter; Winter Hillside; Rock Ledge; The Hair-Pin Curve; Summer Woods; The Falls; Young Sycamores #1 and #2.

Camp Slatington, Garland County: Camp Slatington

Style, Pages 50 on 06/30/2013

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