Famed artist Lawrence Tenney Stevens. Stevens did this Bronze plaque about the trip and the plaque was produced and marked by the Medallic Art Company in New York. The scarce Bronze plaque is in very nice condition. The plaque is 2 1/8 x 3 inches in size. Benjamin Watkins Cloud, II, USN. In May, 1942 he assumed command of an Army transport named the USS CHATEAU THIERRY (AP-31). It was later cast in bronze and has a picture of Capt. CHATEAU THIERRY Departed Charleston South Carolina May 28, 1942 arriving Massaua Africa July 22, 1942 Dedicated to Captain Benjamin Watkins Cloud and his crew. The plaque is signed by Lawrence Tenney Stevens, Sculptor and is made by medalic art co. These operations were approved by FDR to circumvent the neutrality act and aid Britain when they stood alone against the Axis prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. James Kepler Davis commanded the first expeditions & in 1942 he was succeeded by Captain Benjamin Watkins Cloud who led the Douglas Foreign Project 19 to East Africa. This mission was to set up an aircraft repair and replacement base for the British Army then fighting for it’s life in Egypt prior to El Alamein. And stylized depictions of the. Cody and WWII years. Meanwhile, Stevens had been spending his summers in. Working on expanding his American West-themed body of work. He modeled and sculpted in. Everything from the animals and workers of the ranches to the champion. Riders he saw at local. He was granted the first one-man show at Cody’s. It was in Cody that. Began to develop, catalyzed both by Stevens’ work and the work of local furniture designer. Both of whom championed simple designs imbued with the spirit of the American West. Stevens’ figures from this period are scattered all over the American Southwest. One of his largest commissions was for the Centennial Fairgrounds and Esplanade for the 1936. He created three monumental allegorical figures, “Tenor”, “Contralto”, and “Texas”, along with a representation of the. Like nonsense creature of Texan folklore, the “Woofus”. The bronze sculptures were melted down to help the war effort during. But the figures were reconstructed in stainless steel in 2009 and have been restored to their original positions. After this commission, Stevens began to sculpt large allegorical figures such as “America” (1941), “American Sculptor” (1941), and “The Confederacy” (1941) as part of his canon in addition to his original cowboys and animals. In 1939 he won a competition to create colossal monuments for the New York World’s Fair. Stevens volunteered for military service once more when the United States entered WWII, and was assigned to a secret unit called.
