About the Artist

Glennray Tutor, born in 1950 in Kennett, Missouri, is a renowned American painter who is recognized for his stunning photorealistic paintings. He completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in Art and English in 1974 and his Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting in 1976, both from the University of Mississippi. Although he initially created photorealist paintings in the early 1980s without knowledge of the Photorealism movement, he later became aware of the original Photorealism painters and drew inspiration from Ralph Goings' works. Tutor's paintings are characterized by bright colors, nostalgic items, metaphor, and an incredible attention to detail. His paintings usually feature small commonplace artifacts of daily life, especially nostalgic items like glass jars, cola bottles, toys, and fireworks.

Tutor has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions at prestigious venues such as The Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson; Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans; Frist Center For The Visual Arts, Nashville; Hahn Ross Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Gallery Henoch, New York, New York; International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC; Schmidt Bingham Gallery, New York, New York; Helander Gallery, New York; The World's Fair, New Orleans; Frank Marino Gallery, New York; Mendenhall Gallery, Los Angeles; and Jay Etkin Gallery, Santa Fe. His paintings have also been featured on book covers, record albums, and magazines.

Tutor's artwork is held in many corporate, public, and private collections, including The Seymour Lawrence Collection of American Art, The Roger Horchow Collection of Art, FedEx Corporation, The Howard Tullman Collection of Art, Universal Studios, NBC Network, Hospital Corporation of America, and 20th Century Fox Studios. In 1999-2000, his work was featured in a show called "Outward Bound: American Art on the Brink of the Twenty-first Century: An Exhibition of American Contemporary Art," sponsored by the Mobil Corporation, where it was displayed alongside other esteemed artists like Roy Lichtenstein, Chuck Close, Audrey Flack, Robert Gniewek, and Robert Rauschenberg, among others. The traveling exhibition started in Washington, DC, and then toured Southeastern Asia.