British Battleship Rodney in Portland after shelling French coast during invasion, August 1944

Original watercolor, signed and dated by Stevenson, of H.M.S. Battleship Rodney in Portland harbor, after the shelling of the French coast during the invasion, other ships alongside and behind, and two blimps in the air. Original watercolor, signed and dated by Stevenson, of H.M.S. Battleship Rodney in Portland harbor, after the shelling of the French coast during the invasion, other ships alongside and behind, and two blimps in the air. 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.