July 1944, armored units arrive in Southampton England for invasion of continent

Original watercolor, signed and dated by Stevenson, of a line of tanks moving through a street in Southampton, England, on their way to invading the continent. Original watercolor, signed and dated by Stevenson, of a line of tanks moving through a street in Southampton, England, on their way to invading the continent. 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.