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Russ Elliott

Russ Elliott: (March 19, 1932 - ), born: James Frederick Ledwidge in New York City is an accomplished fine art painter, muralist and artist.

Elliott is a designer’s painter and likes the challenge of doing custom murals and paintings. His Hibiscus Restaurant project in North Palm Beach, Fl. for Carleton Varney was a testimony of transformation he created with a stroke of a brush. This Everglades mural was a 35-foot high wall and 45-feet in length. Varney also commissioned him to do the Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia as well as Peters Island and the St. Croix Palm Mural, Rookwood restaurant in Ohio and the Trump Tower with clouds and a Koi Pond in a bathroom. The Carlyle Hotel had him restore the famous Bemmelman and the Erte murals with additional panels in the style of the former artists. Custom painting entails having a designer ask for a certain size and subject matter and color palette. Elliott’s work is found in private home and public and commercial buildings.

The Hibiscus was somewhat on the idea of the Famous Copacabana Night Club in New York City which he restored with new murals and designed four times due to their various moves of establishment over the last 40 years. The President Hotel and the Sheraton Hotel in New York also had a somewhat tropical design. The Minotaur Restaurant at the Wyndham Hotel featured a reproduction of King Minos’throne room (2,600 B.C.) from the Island of Crete. For the famous Chef David Ruggerio the Le Chantilly Restaurant and Nonna’s at the Galleria. The Irving Hotel in Southampton, New York featured a custom designed Casino Library, Rousseau Dining Room and waterlily murals. Lattanzi Restaurant in New York was done as a Etruscan themed mural for this legendary eatery. Blackbeards Castle, and Louisenhoj Castle in St.Thomas and Halcyon Cove in Antiqua. Chez Josephine NYC and Mortimers,the Gaslight Club and the McAlpin Hotel. My patron Marissa Beck’s Grill 21 in New York one of my most fun projects...and hew newest Pan de Sal on E. 21st Street in New York. The list is endless after many years of commissions.

Galleries: Bloomingdales Artist in Residence for over 3 years at the their flagship store in Manhattan. Rosenbaum Gallery, Palm Beach, FL, where I arrived with a young lion on a leash which created quite a stir. Ambassador Gallery, Palm Beach, FL where I Jack Palance wanted me to do push ups with him as we shared our works at this gallery, and Bruce McGaw and N.Y.Graphic Society and my Patron, publisher and sponsor Felice who discovered me and introduced me to serigraphs and Chromacomp. Joan Crawford and Dina Merrill and Cliff Robertson who were kind enough to host my shows at Gallery 400 on Madison Avenue together with the United States Olympic Ski Team. Special note: The late Tennesse Williams and Van Johnson also helped me with my art career over these many years.

Some of my most memorable hightlights throughout my career was being introduced to the late actress Joan Crawford by Carleton Varney. Ms. Crawford became my sponsor and patron and an avid collector of my works. Ambassador Gallery gave me a show together with Jack Palance without "push ups" and Tippi Hedren.

Huntington Hartford once asked me to escort the Duke and Duchess of Windsor to Salvador Dali’s one man show on Columbus Circle in New York City. Along with their two pugs...who I ended up carrying around the exhibition while they tried to drink my Martinis and ate all the canapes in sight. It was a grand and memorable evening to say the least.

And my recent appointment to the United Nations as a designer and artist/muralist for their various projects. Its been quite a marvelous career thus far and thank you to all my patrons for your wonderful help in making it so exceptional.

My Art Director is John Lauruska 405 EAST 54TH ST. NEW YORK, N.Y. 10022 GALLERY: 212.758.6632 FAX: 212.759 6750 website: WWW.RUSSELLIOTT.COM email:   RUSSELLIOTTNYC@ AOL.COM