No need to travel to Bali to see this. Mamie, at the Knoxville Zoo, has her paintings sold through the zoo store for $35.00. And Ruby, at the Phoenix Zoo, reportedly has gotten over $3000 for hers.
...no telling how much they'd fetch if the pachyderms were socially dysfunctional, self-destructive, obesessive-compulsive, and dead...

There were some good dead elephant painters, like Remembrant, who was a HUGE talent. But he was thick-skinned, and even-tempered.
You’re probably thinking of Vincent Van Goat.

"Elephant art" has a quite a good response on goggle. Plus
there is elephant music.

What other elephant creativity is there, I wonder?

Do you think they remember everything they painted?

i simply love paitings.they would say .but do they really know wat is actualy a canvas

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