Original pen and ink sketch, signed and dated by Stevenson, of a naval ship with a tugboat alongside, oil rig in left background, two blimps flying in right distance.
Notes:
Inscribed: "A. Brockie Stevenson 7-44. SBS. 555. ETOUSA. U.A. Army". Stevenson enlisted in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in July 1941. He was one of the original soldier-artists at Fort Belvoir, VA. before accepting a position as a war artist in May 1943. In 1944 he was in southern England covering the preparations for the Normandy invasion and later depicted war damage in France and Germany. Gift of the artist 1994.
Stevenson, A. Brockie,
"Navy ship with tugboat"
(1944).
Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection.
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