Elvis Presley
- Exhibition Label
- Red Grooms, like fellow Tennessean William Eggleston (whose work is also in this room), has often memorialized Elvis in his art. In this image, he arms Elvis with his trademark flashy apparel and accompanying guitar, but a slightly closer observation will yield several other components of Elvis's iconographic ensemble-the lip curl, the slick, combed-back hair, the omnipresent Cadillac, Graceland, and the stylized stage posture. One of the famous gates of Graceland is swung open behind the entertainer while a woman in a red dress and black high heels observes the singer from the porch of the mansion.
- Grooms is to American art as Mark Twain is to American writing; he is the foremost humorist in his discipline. He is also a prolific artist who works in many media.
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- Restrictions & Rights
- © 2010 Red Grooms / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- 1987
- Object number
- NPG.93.48
- Artist
- Red Grooms, born 7 Jun 1937
- Publisher
- Shark's Ink, Inc., founded 1976
- Sitter
- Elvis Aron Presley, 8 Jan 1935 - 16 Aug 1977
- Topic
- Exterior
- Music\Musical instrument\Guitar
- Architecture\Building\House
- Vehicle\Automobile
- Elvis Aron Presley: Male
- Elvis Aron Presley: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician
- Elvis Aron Presley: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Movie
- Elvis Aron Presley: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Guitarist
- Elvis Aron Presley: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Singer\Rock
- Elvis Aron Presley: Military\Army
- Portrait
- Place
- United States\Colorado\Boulder\Boulder
- Medium
- Lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 113.2 x 77cm (44 9/16 x 30 5/16")
- Sheet: 113.2 x 77cm (44 9/16 x 30 5/16")
- Mount: 117.2 x 81cm (46 1/8 x 31 7/8")
- National Portrait Gallery
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