Port construction and repair, Le Havre, France

Original watercolor signed and dated by Stevenson; large blocks of broken and twisted (bombed?) pier, covered in ice and snow; water in background. Typewritten note on verso : "Damage to the E. Boat pens. A huge concrete section on Mole Central remains balanced amid twisted steel, and partially covered by snow and ice." Original watercolor signed and dated by Stevenson; large blocks of broken and twisted (bombed?) pier, covered in ice and snow; water in background. Typewritten note on verso : "Damage to the E. Boat pens. A huge concrete section on Mole Central remains balanced amid twisted steel, and partially covered by snow and ice." 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.