Oral History: Meet U.S. Army Veteran and Artist, Danny Garrett
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2 min readSep 15, 2020
Vietnam War U.S. Army Veteran, Danny Garrett was a Forward Observer with the 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry, 11th Light Infantry Brigade from 1969 to 1970.
In 1970, Mr. Garrett moved to Austin, where he began designing posters for Texas legends Willie Nelson and Stevie Ray Vaughan, along with iconic music venues like Antone’s, Armadillo World Headquarters, Castle Creek, and many others.
Called “Tears in the Rain”, this drawing is a composite portrait of a Vietnam Veteran after a photograph by David Douglas Duncan. It attempts to depict a “generic” image of the soldier that served there, regardless of race or ethnicity.
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