About This Item

  • TitlePride.
  • Call NumberVETS_0127
  • Cite AsNew York Harbor Hospital Creative Arts Program Collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryDrawing of figure and recreational activities, surrounded by military elements. Artwork made for project: American, veteran, me, 2012, in response to the prompt: Draw what you looked like prior to military service. Exhibition label: Pride by Luis Cardona, cardboard, paper and drawing, 20 H x 30 W inches, 2012. Iraq War veteran Luis Cardona created his artwork as a visual example of how proud he was to have served in the best military in the world; the Armed Forces of the United States. He states “It is a privilege and an honor for me to give testimony of such; not only in writing but in a picture.”
  • Date2012
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, JPG, color
  • Genrecollages (visual works)drawings (visual works)
  • NoteTitle supplied by creator.
  • CreatorCardona, Luis
  • SubjectVeterans--United States ; Self-portraits
  • CollectionVeterans Creative Arts Program collection
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • Copyright OwnerNew York Harbor Hospital Creative Arts Program