Wrecker hoisted aboard liberty ship July 1944, Southampton, England

Original pencil sketch, signed and dated by Stevenson, of a wrecker being hoisted aboard a liberty ship. Original pencil sketch, signed and dated by Stevenson, of a wrecker being hoisted aboard a liberty ship. 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.