For sale is a wonderful and important illustration painting by the well-known and highly regarded American Illustrator Mark English (1933 – 2019). This is the Original Painting for the TV Guide cover for the hit Western TV Show Bonanza week of October 7th. Ink W/C on paper. Signed by the artist on the brim of the hat on the right. An important piece of American TV History. Bonanza is an American Western television series that ran on NBC from September 12, 1959, to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 431 episodes, Bonanza is NBC’s longest-running western, and ranks overall as the second-longest-running western series on U. Network television (behind CBS’s Gunsmoke), and within the top 10 longest-running, live-action American series. The show continues to air in syndication. The gilt frame with some surface gilt losses. Framed – 22 x 16. Image – 16 x 14 1/2. He was one of the United States’ leading illustrators for publications in a career spanning from the 1960s to the 1990s, before beginning a career painting for gallery exhibition in 1995. Mark English was born on September 19, 1933 in Hubbard, Texas. He attended the Hubbard High School and graduated in 1951, after which he enrolled into the University of Texas. He was then drafted into the military during the Korean War. In 1954, English married his first wife, Peggy Ann Littlejohn. In 1960, Mark graduated with honours from The Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, with a BFA in Advertising Design. After gaining work experience in advertising agencies for the automobile industry, English and his family moved to Connecticut in 1964. In 1977, Hallmark Cards offered Mark an Artist-in-Residency to teach classes to its creative staff in Kansas City. It was there that he met his second wife, Wendy Buskey, and they married in 1983. In 1995, English retired from illustrations and began to paint for galleries in earnest. [1] The same year, English and his son John co-founded the Illustration Academy, an art and design workshop catering to students and professionals. From 1999 onwards, English’s work and paintings were exhibited in galleries across the United States and in London. His last exhibition was in 2019, in the Sager Braudis Gallery, in Columbia. Before his death, English was living in Liberty, Missouri with his wife. On August 8, 2019, Mark English died peacefully, “after a brief illness” in Kansas City. [2] He left behind four daughters; Donna, Stephanie, Emily, and Sarah, and a son, John. English’s unique illustration style appeared in publications as TIME, Sports Illustrated, Redbook, Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone, McCalls, and many other corporate and pharmaceutical publications. [3] He designed 14 stamps for the U. Postal Service, movie posters and album covers for John Denver, Julian Lennon, and The Who. In painting, English showcases his style in a variety of subjects, from figures, animals and florals to landscape and architecture. His paintings have been exhibited worldwide in galleries such as the Eleanor Ettinger Gallery in New York, Albemarle Gallery in London, Maxwell Gallery in San Francisco, and have been the subject to publication in four books, available on his website. The item “Mark English Signed Original 1972 TV Guide Cover Art For Western TV Show Bonanza” is in sale since Thursday, October 1, 2020. This item is in the category “Art\Paintings”. The seller is “upstatetreasures14″ and is located in Kingston, New York. This item can be shipped to United States, Ukraine, Canada.
- Originality: Original
- Features: Signed
- Subject: Bonanza TV Show
- Year: 1972
- Medium: Ink W/C
- Date of Creation: 1970-1989
- Style: Illustration Art
- Region of Origin: US
- Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
- Painting Surface: Paper
- Artist: Mark English
- Size: Medium (up to 36in.)