black velvet: Remember black velvet paintings? Here's one. Coolidge GA. Odell Dillard
- 06/03/19 06:28 AM
Black Velvet art work How many remember when drawings or paintings were often done on black velvet paper? Seems as if I mostly remember them being used to do bull fighting pictures. I think there may have been lots of ones done in Mexico. In fact, google pulls this up regarding the paintings. "Ciudad Juárez, Mexico was a center of velvet painting in the 1970s. A displaced Georgia farmboy, Doyle Harden, was the pioneer who created an enormous factory, where velvets were turned out by the thousands by artists sitting in studios. ... Edgar Leeteg has been called "the father of American black velvet kitsch". This was … (8 comments)
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