Original watercolor with pen and ink highlights, signed and dated 6/44 by Stevenson (back is dated July 1944), of warships at sea.
Notes:
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,
"Ships at sea, July 1944"
(1944).
Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection.
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