About This Item

  • TitleThe long road.
  • Call NumberVETS_0131
  • Cite AsNew York Harbor Hospital Creative Arts Program Collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryDrawings and collage reference transporting supplies, includes text. Artwork made for project: American, veteran, me, 2012, in response to the prompt: Draw what you looked like prior to military service. Exhibition label: The long road by Eric Martinez, cardboard, paper and drawing, 20 H x 30 W inches, 2012. Eric Martinez’s work details his strong and permanent memories transporting supplies overseas. Mr. Martinez served in Iraq. He indicated “We moved everything.” Of course, at times this was as very dangerous mission because there were concealed bombs on the roads on which he drove.
  • Date2012
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, JPG, color
  • Genrecollages (visual works)drawings (visual works)
  • NoteTitle supplied by creator.
  • CreatorMartinez, Eric
  • 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