About This Item

  • TitleAim high.
  • Call NumberVETS_0118
  • Cite AsNew York Harbor Hospital Creative Arts Program Collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryDrawing of artist smiling, with U.S. Air Force and religious symbols. Artwork made for project: American, veteran, me, 2012, in response to the prompt: Draw what you looked like prior to military service. Exhibition label: Aim high by Sheridan Dean, cardboard, paper and drawing, 20 H x 30 W inches, 2012. The American Air force always aimed high. Vietnam Veteran Sheridan Dean quotes the old slogan “They took the blue from the sky and put it in a young person’s eye and a touch of old glory too.” The self- portrait shows him with a red, white and blue handkerchief that he felt made him look preppy.
  • Date2012
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, JPG, color
  • Genrecollages (visual works)drawings (visual works)
  • NoteTitle supplied by creator.
  • CreatorDean, Sheridan
  • SubjectVeterans--United States ; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Veterans--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