Co-founder Carl Baldwin wears a velvet blazer, with a portrait of Elvis on the back. Velveteria. What: ... The walls are crowded with nearly 400 examples of velvet painting ...

You've never seen this many velvet paintings together — because Rick Smith owned them all. Now a Calgary museum has helped find some of them a new home.

It is hard to say with absolute certainty which of the hundreds of paintings at Velveteria, Los Angeles’ velvet painting museum, are the most strangely sublime. There’s the wall of clowns in a ...

During the height of their popularity in the '50s and '60s, black velvet paintings were a staple in Midwestern homes, enjoyed as an in-fashion art. Basement tiki bars were adorned with tasteful nudes.

Are velvet paintings considered a collectible, a work of art or a plain tacky collectible? Beauty is all in the eyes of the beholders as one old sage said.

Elvis, JFK, Tom Jones ... the Velveteria is a museum dedicated to one thing: velvet paintings, and this small museum over 3,000 works on velvet in its collection.

Velvet Painting-O-Rama It's a visual feast of pop culture proportions at Gallery 1988. By Alysia Gray Painter • Published July 30, 2012 • Updated on July 30, 2012 at 1:59 pm ...

Bruce White’s ’Velvet Paintings for Your Inner Nerd’ show at Gallery 1988 showcases nostalgic pop culture figures on the medium they deserve: luscious velvet.