About This Item

  • TitleAlways smiling.
  • Call NumberVETS_0119
  • Cite AsNew York Harbor Hospital Creative Arts Program Collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryDrawing of artist, smiling, with collage 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: Always smiling by Gennaro DeLuca, cardboard, paper and drawing, 20 H x 30 W inches, 2012. Gennaro DeLuca served in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War. His artwork shows wavy forms that graphically relate to the navel experience. He indicates that when he was young he was a very happy person.
  • Date2012
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, JPG, color
  • Genrecollages (visual works)drawings (visual works)
  • NoteTitle supplied by creator.
  • CreatorDeLuca, Gennaro
  • 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