- 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/")
- In Copyright
- Access Condition:
restriction on access
- Collection is open for
research.