Title Information
Title
Lorain crane lifts beams from railway car
Subtitle
Pompey, France. Oct. 1944
Name: Personal
Name Part
Stevenson, A. Brockie
Name Part: Date
1919-2009
Role
Role Term: Text
artist
Type of Resource
still image
Genre (aat)
paintings (visual works)
Origin Information
Place
Place Term: Code (MARC Country Code)
fr
Place Term: Text
Pompey, France
Date Created (encoding="w3cdtf", keyDate="yes")
1944
Language
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
eng
Physical Description
Extent
1 painting; 41 x 52 cm.
digitalOrigin
reformatted digital
Abstract
Original acrylic painting, signed and dated by Stevenson; close-up view of mobile crane lifting steel beams from railway car on stone piling, soldiers directing driver, civilians looking on at lower left; 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
Topic
Engineering and construction
Subject
Topic
Mobile cranes
Subject
Topic
Railroads 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
1223427899806375
Access Condition: rights statement (href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/")
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Access Condition: restriction on access
Collection is open for research.