PFAS22 This is a hand signed 6" x 4" hand signed photo for David Oxtoby, friends and fellow student and flat mate with David Hockney and most noted for his pop art to musicians in particular Elvis Presley who has personally signed this souvenir of an exhibition he held in London in 1996 of a great number of his Elvis Presley works with Malcolm Stead - David Oxtoby's signature rests perfectly on the front of the card undedicated and the reverse of the souvenir has all about the David Oxtoby Elvis Lives exhibition too and it is mint condition.
David Oxtoby was born in Horsforth, Yorkshire, in 1938. He studied initially in Bradford, then at the Royal Academy Schools from 1960-64. He joined the Redfern Gallery in 1964 and exhibited there regularly until 1981. Oxtobys subjects are his childhood heroes - the Americans who redefined the terms of popular music in the 1950s. He has attempted to communicate through paint the emotion and excitement he felt when hearing these performers for the first time. This has since become a lifelong obsession, and he has dedicated his career to producing a comprehensive visual document of the great popular musicians of the 1950s and '60s, especially Elvis, Chuck Berry and Ray Charles, through to the Glam Rock of the '70s, as led by David Bowie.