American Artist 1938-2013, Signed and dated lower rate. Contemporary interpretation of Bright Aqua blue shirt, Iron and Outlet Composition. Measures app ht app 56 inches width app 66 inches. Custom wood gold leafed frame. About the artist, Roy Carruthers, painter, printmaker, illustrator, graphic designer, and art director, was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa on December 14, 1938. Carruthers studied at the Port Elizabeth Technical College Art School, which apprenticed him in the advertising agencies in Port Elizabeth. From 1956 to 1968, he worked as an art director and graphic designer, first in South Africa, then in London, where he moved in 1960. He spent most of the 1960s living England before he immigrated to the United States in 1968. He settled in Old Greenwich, Connecticut and commuted to New York City for many years working in the advertising industry. In 1974, he decided to devote himself entirely to fine art but returned to the advertising world in the 1980s. He eventually opened his own advertising and graphic design firm in