365 Engineers G.S. Regiment fuel tank installation at airport quickway crane, June 1944

Original watercolor with pen and ink, signed and dated by Stevenson, of excavating equipment installing a fuel tank at an airport, plane flying overhead. Original watercolor with pen and ink, signed and dated by Stevenson, of excavating equipment installing a fuel tank at an airport, plane 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.