Waterproofing of equipment for invasion, Warminster, England 1944

Original oil painting on paper, signed and dated by Stevenson, of men waterproofing the underside of trucks before the invasion. Original oil painting on paper, signed and dated by Stevenson, of men waterproofing the underside of trucks before the invasion. 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.