Luxembourg, Nov. 1944
Original pen and ink drawing, signed and dated by Stevenson, of military truck equipped with guns, two soldiers in back, behind a stone wall with sign: Verboten Keep Out. Original pen and ink drawing, signed and dated by Stevenson, of military truck equipped with guns, two soldiers in back, behind a stone wall with sign: Verboten Keep Out. 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.
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