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The Singing Butler
1992 painting by Jack Vettriano
The Singing Butler
The Singing Butler is an oil-on-canvas painting made by Scottish artist Jack Vettriano in 1992. The painting measures 28 in × 36 in (71 cm × 91 cm). It depicts a couple in evening dress dancing on the damp sand of a beach on the coast of Fife, with grey skies above a low horizon. The man wears a dinner jacket and evening pumps; the woman mostly matches the formal dress of her partner by wearing a red cocktail dress with matching long gloves, but is in bare feet instead of wearing shoes. Two attendants to the left and right, a maid and a butler respectively, hold up umbrellas against the weather; the butler is as formally dressed as the male dancer with the addition of a bowler hat, while the maid wears a standard housekeeping uniform with a white apron and clutches her hat against the wind. As a contemporary cultural icon, The Singing Butler has been compared to Grant Wood's American Gothic. Vettriano described the painting as an "uplifting fantasy" and chose the subject after being complimented...
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