Welcome to the Colin Ruthven Art Gallery. Unless prepared for a gallery show, where paintings are titled for commercial purposes, I don't usually title my works, mainly because I dislike labels and it might give the viewer an urge to make it look like it's called. Art is always for the person who's seeing it and therefore probably as different as there are people who would look at it. The one who has painted it has already had his experience.

One of eighteen portraits or caricatures of Elvis Presley I created, during my career as illustrator for the
Memphis Commercial Appeal (1981 - 1996).


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