An oil painting 8 feet high by 6 feet wide, displaying Elvis nude sitting on a gold throne with a crown at his feet, is the only painting in the world of its kind. On tour for five years beginning in 1994 with the exhibition, "ELVIS + MARILYN 2 X IMMORTAL" was organized and circulated by DB&A EXHIBITION MANAGEMENT, INC, Cincinnati, Ohio. Educational program by EDUCART PROJECTS, INC. Davis, California. Elvis the King is for sale!
"ELVIS THE KING" was featured in the art book ELVIS + MARILYN 2 X IMMORTAL, published by RIZZOLI INTERNATIONAL, INC, of New York, copyright © 1994. The painting was featured in Sun Magazine and the tour was reported in numerous news articles. “Elvis the King” - valued: 1994, $14 - $15 million. On today's market - $20 million.
The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, Massachusetts
Year 1994, November 2nd through January 8, 1995
Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas
February 4th through March 26, 1995
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
April 15th through June 30th, 1995
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
August 2 through September 24, 1995
The New York Historical Society, New York
October 15th, 1995 through January 8, 1996
(Exhibition was canceled)
The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma
April 13th through June 3rd, 1996
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
June 22 through August 19th, 1996
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, Tennessee
September 7th through November 3rd, 1996
San Jose Museum of Art, California
November 23rd, 1996 through January 30th, 1997
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii
April through June 8, 1997
Hong Kong
Japan
Sometimes, due to the limited space in some of the Museums, all of the
paintings were not exhibited at the same time. In some instances, other exhibitions
were taking place in the same building.
Artists on the Tour
Allan D'Arcangelo - Marilyn. Allan D'Arcamgelo/VAGA, New York
Robert Arneson - Elvis. Pastel on paper and conte crayon. Frumkin/Adams
Gallery, New York. Elvis. Glazed ceramic, Courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution. A gift from the Francis and Sydney
Lewis Foundation, Richmond, Virginia.
Conrad Atkinson - For Thomas Paine;For Elvis Presley, Courtesy of Ronald
Feldman Fine Arts, New York.
Ashley Bickerton - Seascape: Floating Costume to Drift for Eternity, Courtesy
of Sonnabend Gallery, New York.
Guillaume Bijl - Composition Trouvee, Mixed media, glass and Plaster.
Courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
Peter Blake - Marilyn Monroe Wall No. 2. Plywood, mixed media. Courtesy of
Waddington Galleries, London, England.
Jef Bourgeau - You Are The One, Courtesy of the David Klein Gallery.
Douglas Bourgeois - A New Place to Dwell. Oil on wood. Collection of Ms.
Ellen Johnson and Dr. Ronald Schwarz.
Roger Brown - Don't Be Cruel. Oil on canvas. Greenville County Museum of
Art.
Wayne Edson Bryan - A Foo of Sorts by Rastas Foo. Wood diptych. Gallery K.
Washington, D.C.
Ralph Burns - Untitled. Photographic silver prints. Courtesy of artist.
Nancy Burson - Baby Elvis and Baby Marilyn.
Photolithograph on silk. Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York.
Jon Campbell - The Three Elvises. Enamel and oil on canvas. Melbourne,
Australia, private collection.
Patty Carroll - Wall of Elvises. Photographic cibachrome and C - prints.
Courtesy of the artist.
Christo - Revues Empaquetees. Magazines, string and plastic. Sonnabend
Collection.
Buster Cleveland - Pop Up. Mixed media. Cracie Mansion Fine Art, New York.
Calum Colvin - The Two Ways of Life. Cibachrome print. Courtesy of
Salama-Caro Gallery, London, England.
Joseph Cornell - Custodian. Paper and Wood. Courtesy of the Collection of
the The Southland Corporation.
Sally Davies - Del Rey. Oil on canvas. Courtesy of artist.
Daze - Runaway. Acrylic and spray paint. Modern Culture, New York.
Marc Solomon Dennis - Study of Severed Elvis Heas with Salmon. Courtesy of
the artist.
Jessica Diamond - Gold Bar. Bronze plated with gold. Courtesy of Artist.
Steven Dunning - Untitled. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of artist.
William Eggleston - Untitled/Gold Piano. Print, dye transfer. Collection of
the Chase Manhatten Bank, N.A.
Ted Faiers - Rendezvous. Acrylic on canvas. Tennessee State Museum.
Howard Finster - Elvis For His Country. Marker and enamel on wood. Phyllis
Kind Gallery, New York and Chicago Illinois, from the collection of Mr. and
Mrs. William M. Colaiace, Providence.
Susan Paul Firestone - It's Me, Marilyn. Mixed Media. Courtesy from the
Collection of Rosemary and Herb Seidner, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Tony Fitzpatrick - Memphis Tattoo King. Acrylic and colored pencil on slate.
Janet Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia. Collection of George Felice.
Audrey Flack - Marilyn: Golden Girl. Collection of Debra and Rober Waxman,
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
David Gilhooly - Frog Elvis:The Lounge Act. Earthenware. Courtesy of the
artist.
Alexander Guy - Crucifixion. Oil on canvas. Collection of Glasgow Art
Gallery and Museum, Scotland.
Mike Hale - King. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy.
Peter Halley - Double Elvis. Acrylic on canvas. Collection of Cooperfund,
Inc.
Richard Hamilton - My Marilyn. Silkscreen on paper. Courtesy of Sotheby's.
Keith Haring - Utitled. Metallic ink and sumi ink on poster. Estate of Keith
Haring.
Margaret Harrison - Anonymous Was A Woman: From Rosa Luxemburg to Jasis
Joplin. Mixed media. Courtesy of Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc. New York.
Nicholas Higgins - Elvis Book 1. Cloth -bound book, enamel on paper.
Courtesy of artist.
George Hirose - Elvis Birthplace. Oil on photograph. Courtesy of artist.
Seymour Howard - Icon Diptych. Photocopy and acrylic. Private collection.
Robert Indiana - The Metamorphosis of Norma Jean Mortenson. Acrylic on
canvas. Collection of Robert L. B. Tobin, San Antonio, Texas.
Cameron Jamie - Drawing of Elvis. Rice grain with drawing of Elvis. Robert
Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
Ray Johnson - Marilyn Monroes's Mother's Potato Masher. Collage and Ink
drawing. Collection of Rolf Nahr, Berlin, Germany.
Bernard Joisten - Remix. Acrylic on PVC, Plexiglas. Collection of Laurent
and Nathalie Dembert, Paris, France.
Paul Karabinis - Elvis in the Desert. Salted paper print. Courtesy of the
artist.
Deborah Kass - Double Double Yenti. Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas.
Courtesy of Jose Freire Fine Art, Inc., New York.
Kata - Elvis Was a Real Man. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of the Artist.
Jerry Kearns - Earth Angel. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of the Kent
Gallery, New York.
Kathleen Kondilas - Madonna & Child. Courtesy of artist.
William de Kooning - Marilyn Monroe. Oil on canvas. Neuberger Museum of
Art, Purchase College, State University of New York.
Rena LaCaria - Elvis the King. Oil on canvas. Courtesy of artist.
Justen Ladda - Elvis Pelvis. Mixed media. Collection of Jill Sussman, New
York.
Mark Lancaster - From Post-Wahol Souvenirs. Oil on canvas. Courtesy of
artist.
Jean Jacques Lebel - Taking a Real Good Peek at Marilyn's Amazing Offer: Mass
Produced Like All Show Biz's Ice Cubes in the Shapes of Luscious Nudes.
Courtesy of Gallerie 1900-2000, Paris, France.
Richard Lindner - Marilyn Was Here. Lithographs. Collection of Achim and
Colette Moeller, New York.
Matthew Lawrence - Elvis and the Sick Puppy. Woodcut print. Courtesy of
artist.
Andrew Logan - Marilyn [Glamour]-Lenin[Monumental]. Wood, resin and glass.
Courtesy of artist.
Louis Lussier - Elvis Shadow. Photograph. Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
Joni Mabe - The Elvis Presley Scrapbook. Box with Hardcover book.
Collection of the Marvin and Ruth Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Miami
Beach, Florida.
Michael and Heather Martin-Daniels - Altar to Self-Indulgence and
Decadence. Mixed media. Courtesy of artists.
Justin McCarthy - Marilyn Monroe. Acrylic painted on Masonite. Dr. Nancy
Karlins Thoman Collection, New York.
Carel Moiseiwitsch - Your're Right, I'm Left, He's Gone. Pastel on paper.
Collection of Lasha and Bob Roche, Vancouver, Canada.
Greely Myatt - Birthplace of the King. Paint, lead, earth and cement.
Courtesy of artist.
Claes Odenburg - Notebook Page: Tomb Design for Marilyn Monroe. Colored
pencil and ball-point pen. Collection of Coosje van Bruggen and Claes Oldenburg,
New York.
Joel Otterson - The Bed from Hell. Mixed media. Yokohama Museum of Art.
Nam June Paik - Memory of the 20th Century. Mixed media. Courtesy of the
Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Ed Paschke - Matinee. Oil on canvas. Chicago Illinois, private collection.
Pink Lady 2. Ink on paper. Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York and Chicago,
Illinois.
Francis Pavy - Elvis and Eve. Enamel and oil on copper. Arthur Roger
Gallery, New Orleans, Lousiana.
Carlos Pazos - Tu Perro Te Recuerda. Mixed media. Courtesy of Galeria Joan
Prats, Barcelona, Spain.
John Marc Peckham - Lights, Waves, Bows, Thunder. Panel painted with oil and
gold leaf. Courtesy of artist.
Richard Pettibone - Andy Warhol. Silkscreen on canvas. Courtesy of the Curt
Marcus Gallery of New York from the Collection of Tom Patchett.
Petter Phillips - For Men Only - Starring MM and BB. Courtesy of the Centro
de Arte Modema Jose de Azexedo Perdi Gao/F.C.G., Lisbon, Portugal.
James B. Pink - Resurrection. Drawing, mixed media. Collection of Ellis M.
Pryce-Jones, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Marie Pobre - Marilyn. Courtesy of artist.
Pruitt-Early (Rob Pruitt and Jack Early) Artwords from the private life of
Pruitt-Early, made film based on crazed fan of Elvis and also created a
photgraphic canvas. Courtesy of artist's.
Rancillac - Yound Marilyn, Courtesy of the Galerie du Centre, Paris, France.
Robert Rauschenberg - Test Stone # 1. Colors, Lithograph. Courtesy of the
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Carol Robison - Crying Icons, Mixed media Courtesy of Artist.
James Rosenquist - Marilyn Monroe. Spray enamel and oil on canvas. The
Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Mimmo Rotella - Marilyn Monroe. Decollage. Courtesy of the artist, New
York.
Edward Ruscha - The King's Crown. Acrylic on paper. Courtesy of the Artist.
Michael Rothenstein - Marilyn I. Screenprint and woodcut. Angela Flowers
Gallery, London, England.
Raymond Saunders - Joseph Fitzpatrick Was Our Teacher. Mixed media.
Collecton of Crocker Art Museum.
Sam Shaw - Hi, Sam Spade. Photograph. Courtesy of Sam Shaw.
Roger Shimomura - Heroine, Hammer, Hibachi. Acrylic on canvas.
Alexis Smith - Jailbait. Mixed media. Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles,
collection of William and Anne Hokin.
Richard Smith - MM. Oil on canvas. Courtesy of Richard L. Feigen & Co., New
York.
Haim Stenbach - Untitled/Mailyn quitar and breast mugs. Shelf with objects.
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York and Sonnabend Gallery.
Joanne Stephens - Homage to Elvis. Mixed media. Courtesy of artist.
John Stezaker - Untitled. Collage. Salama-Caro Gallery, London, England.
Leonid Sokov - Marilyn and Stalin. Oil on metal. Collection of Mina
Litinsky, Sloane Gallery of Art, Denver, Colorado.
Cecilia Stanford - Clint, Me, and Elvis. Mixed media. Courtesy of the
artist.
Bert Stern - Document. Silkscreen. Renee Fotouhi Fine Art East, New York.
James strombotne - Elvis and Alfalfa. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of the
Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
Roy Tamboli - Elvis. Silkscreen, computer altered. Courtesy of artist.
Laurens Tan - well, the image is one thing. Video. Courtesy of artist.
Henk Tas - Home. Mixed media/photograph. Courtesy of Torch Gallery,
Amsterdam.
Jeffrey Vallance - Elvis Shroud (Elvis Died [on the Toilet] While Reading a
Book on the Shroud of Turin. Elvis Sweatcloth. Mixed media. Rosamund Felsen
Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
Andy Warhol - Marilyn Monroe, Screenprint. Courtesy of Judith Goldberg Fine
Art Collection, New York. Four Marilyns. Screenprint. Collection of Leon
Hecht and Robert Pincus-Witten, New York. Elvis I and II. Silkscreen.
Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.
Jeff Way - Idol II. Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the artist.
William Wegman - Elvis. Ink on paper. Courtesy of artist.
Alfred Wertheimer - The Kiss. Photograph. Collection of Alfred Wertheimer.
Tom Wesselmann - Little Great American Nude #24. Collage and oil on canvas.
Collection of Robert E. Abrams, New York.
Janice E. Williams - Icon Series: Graces Under Fire. Acrylic and charcoal on
canvas. Courtesy of artist.
Frank Xerox - Almost a Frank Xerox. Courtesy of the artist.
Kathey M. Yancey - Idol Worship is a Bed of Roses. Gouache and watercolor
with collage. Collection of Barbara and Richard Dobkin. Worshipping Venus From
Afar. Collage on board. Collection of John C. yancey. Atlanta, Georgia.
Malcah Zeidis - Andy and Marilyn. Oil on board. Courtesy of artist.
More ELVIS paintings by Rena F. LaCaria - All are for sale!
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ABOVE: Left to Right: Elvis Eternal, Blessed Peace, Going Home, The Homecoming
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