Small British troop ship with Liberty ship in background Southampton England

Original watercolor signed and dated by Stevenson, of British troop ship, with tugboat alongside, and a liberty ship in background in Southampton, England, two blimps flying above. Original watercolor signed and dated by Stevenson, of British troop ship, with tugboat alongside, and a liberty ship in background in Southampton, England, two blimps flying above. 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.