Title Information
Title
Port construction and repair
Subtitle
Le Havre, France. Jan. 1945
Name: Personal
Name Part
Stevenson, A. Brockie
Name Part: Date
1919-2009
Role
Role Term: Text
artist
Type of Resource
still image
Genre (aat)
watercolors (paintings)
Origin Information
Place
Place Term: Code (MARC Country Code)
fr
Place Term: Text
Le Havre, France
Date Created (encoding="w3cdtf", keyDate="yes")
1945
Language
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
eng
Physical Description
Extent
1 watercolor; 36.4 x 25.3 cm.
digitalOrigin
reformatted digital
Abstract
Original ink and watercolor sketch, signed and dated by Stevenson; group of 3 DUKWs on rain soaked harbor roadway, ships and cranes in distance; detailed artist's report (for Intelligence Division) on verso.
Note
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.
Subject
Name: Corporate
Name Part
United States. Army
Subject
Topic
World War, 1939-1945
Geographic
France
Geographic
Le Havre
Topic
Engineering and construction
Subject
Topic
Trucks in art
Related Item: Host (displayLabel="Collection:")
Title Information
Title
Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
Identifier: COLID
13
Identifier: URI
http://dl.lib.brown.edu/askb
Identifier: METSID
122342442972000
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