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Heavy motorized crane loaded onto tank recovery vehicle: Bar le Duc, France, Oct. 1944

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Year:
1944
Contributor:
Stevenson, A. Brockie, 1919-2009 (artist)
Genre:
watercolors (paintings)
Subject:
United States. Army
World War, 1939-1945 > Equipment and supplies
Cranes, derricks, etc.
Extent:
1 watercolor; 36.8 x 25.3 cm.

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Abstract:
Original ink and watercolor sketch, signed and dated by Stevenson; side view of massive tank recovery vehicle, carrying large motorized crane, small building at left; detailed artist's description (Intelligence Division report) on verso.
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.
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Stevenson, A. Brockie, "Heavy motorized crane loaded onto tank recovery vehicle: Bar le Duc, France, Oct. 1944 " (1944). Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:236860/

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