The painting is displayed at the Smith College Museum of Art in Northampton, Massachusetts, as part of the exhibition A Dangerous Woman: Subversion & Surrealism in the Art of Honoré Sharrer (September 29, 2017 – January 7, 2018). As their curator explains, the painting came in part from Sharrer’s interest in examining the intersection of myth and the celebrity culture that surrounded Presley and other popular entertainment figures in the early 1960s. Equally enigmatic is another of her late paintings, A Dream of Monticello (1996) in which a female nude wearing headphones reclines with one red pump on and one off. Thomas Jefferson, and presumably one of his sons with Sally Hemings are standing just behind. In the background are two triumphal obelisks flanking an almost Dali-esque clock, presumably the clock at Monticello. In the foreground is a beautifully rendered silver ewer, a known Monticello objét. This combination of careful observation, juxtaposition, fantastical elements, often nude woman portrayed in scenes with clothed men, triumphal arches are all rendered in a curiously flat, highly charged and exquisitely colored dreamscape-like settings are like glimpses of a private world, rendered for us by the artist to make of them what we will. Awards 1951: Norman Waite Harris Medal and Prize, Art Institute of Chicago 1971: Childe Hassam Purchase Prize, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, NY 1978: Childe Hassam Purchase Prize, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, NY 1981: Lillian Fairchild Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts, University of Rochester, NY 1984: Gladys Emerson Cook Prize, National Academy of Design, NY 1987: Award for Outstanding Achievement in Visual Arts, National Women's Caucus for Art 2000: Prize for Outstanding Accomplishment in Painting, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, NY Collections Columbus Museum of Art, OH Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA Estate of Lincoln Kirstein Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY Museum of Modern Art, NY Newark Museum, NJ San Diego Museum of Art, CA Sarah Roby Foundation Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA University of Rochester, NY Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts University of Virginia Art Museum References See Honoré Sharrer, (New York: Spanierman Gallery, 2002). It includes essays by Linda Nochlin and Erika Doss. This is the closest to a catalogue raisonné in print, produced for her show at Spanierman April 18-May 11, 2002. See