High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A Velvet Elvis is a painting of Elvis Presley on velvet. It is sometimes known as a Velvis, which is a portmanteau originally coined in 1984 by David Knechel. It is typically a costumed torso of Elvis holding a microphone, painted on black, navy blue, red or purple velvet. This iconic velvet painting is considered an archtypical example of kitsch. A brief history of black velvet paintings is presented by Pamela Liflander in Black Velvet Artist, a booklet published by Running Press, Philadelphia in 2003, and included in an art kit by the same name. Liflander also details the life of Edgar Leeteg, "the father of American black velvet kitsch," whose "raucous and bawdy" life was previously captured by James Michener in Rascals in Paradise (1957).

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