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C-1 cargo ship, loaded with tanks as deck cargo, waits for port space: Le Havre, France, c. 1945

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Year:
1945
Contributor:
Stevenson, A. Brockie, 1919-2009 (artist)
Genre:
drawings (visual works)
Subject:
United States. Navy
World War, 1939-1945 > France > Le Havre > Naval operations, American
World War, 1939-1945 > France > Le Havre > Equipment and supplies
Ships in art
Extent:
1 drawing; 56.5 x 29.7 cm.

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Abstract:
Original ink sketch, name-stamped by Stevenson; side view of large freighter with several military tanks on deck.
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, "C-1 cargo ship, loaded with tanks as deck cargo, waits for port space: Le Havre, France, c. 1945 " (1945). 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:236873/

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