Southern England, 1944

Original oil painting signed and dated by Stevenson; U.S. soldiers standing near troop trucks in rural area, bare trees and farmland in background, planes flying overhead. Original oil painting signed and dated by Stevenson; U.S. soldiers standing near troop trucks in rural area, bare trees and farmland in background, planes flying overhead. 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.