About This Item

  • TitlePerseverance.
  • Call NumberVETS_0126
  • Cite AsNew York Harbor Hospital Creative Arts Program Collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryDrawing of recreational activities, surrounded by military elements and slogans. Artwork made for project: American, veteran, me, 2012, in response to the prompt: Draw what you looked like prior to military service. Exhibition label: Perseverance by Max Alvarez, cardboard, paper and drawing, 20 H x 30 W inches, 2012. Iraq War veteran Max Alvarez served in the 3rd ID Battalion 3/7 Infantry and presents their symbol in this powerful piece of artwork. He indicates that this Battalion “saw a great deal of action” and his picture is surrounded by camouflage as a result of these memories. He juxtaposes his drawing of his youthful recreational pleasures with the serious slogan “Some gave all, all gave some.”
  • Date2012
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, JPG, color
  • Genrecollages (visual works)drawings (visual works)
  • NoteTitle supplied by creator.
  • CreatorAlvarez, Max
  • SubjectVeterans--United States ; Iraq War, 2003-2011--Veterans ; 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