Modern Oil On Board Painting By Frank Kirk

Modern Oil On Board Painting By Frank Kirk

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Frank Kirk, was born in 1933 and spent nearly all of his formative years within the five New York boroughs and Long Island. As a child in Valley Stream, LI, Kirk remembers a pack of “buddies” that did everything in a group: swimming in Valley Stream's lake, trips to nearby ocean beaches and frequent playground activities. There were a number of artists from his early years that influenced his development as an artist. First among those was his teacher at New York’s Visual Art School, the legendary Burne Hogarth (of Tarzan fame) with whom he studied drafting and anatomical composition. He also reports that another early mentor was Silas Rhodes (1915-2007), founder of the SVA. The final cornerstone of Kirk's early influences was the fabled American precisionist, Francis Criss (1901-1973) who also taught at SVA.

After driving a truck for Coca Cola for several years, he took his first job in advertising on Madison Avenue in the “bullpen” of Doyal Dane Bernbach (DDB), which was then and to this day, one of America’s most powerful advertising agencies. At DDB he worked his way up to Art Director including a major effort on the introduction of Volkswagen to America. Kirk then spent some time at the fashion house, Jane Trahey & Partners, where he focused on accounts like Elizabeth Arden. It was at Trahey that he was part of the team that pioneered the introduction of Carte Blanche, one of the earliest credit cards. From there he moved to Jack Tinker & Partners as a Co-Creative Director. His final stop on New York’s famous Madison Avenue, in the day of the real Mad Men, was as Head Art Director at Wells Rich & Green working on accounts like Benson & Hedges and Alka Seltzer. 

42" Height x 49 1/2" Width x 1 1/2" Depth 

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