AMERICAN ART. Robert Rivers: Large 1999 Limited Edition Etching Printed in Colour Using Three Plates. Entitled "Elephant in Purple Garden". FRAMED Elephant in Purple Garden This is an unusual work

This is an unusual work in that it is an etching that has been printed in colours from three different plates

It is shown in silhouette

George Donald took a set Rivers etchings with him on his return to Scotland showed them to Scottish printmakers

It is from an edition of 50 impressions and is entitled "Elephant Purple Garden"

Rivers has exhibited widely in the United States and the United Kingdom

AMERICAN ART. Robert Rivers: Large 1999 Limited Edition Etching Printed in Colour Using Three Plates. Entitled "Elephant in Purple Garden". FRAMED Elephant in Purple Garden This is an unusual workThis is a very interesting colour etching which was printed using three separate plates to give all the colours. Not many artists work in this way with etching. They were printed in Edinburgh. Robert Rivers is an American artist and printmaker. He was born at Guntersville, Alabama in 1950. He attended Auburn University where he excelled at sports and thought about becoming an American football coach. During the summer he worked as an animal trainer at