Mark Ogle Studio / 405 Valley View Drive / Kalispell, Montana 59901
phone: 406-249 3177 / e-mail
Mark was born in Helena, Montana in 1952. He was raised
and educated in Kalispell where his first venture into
the
art business was to help the Ace Powell Bronze Foundry in
1970. After three years of military service with the U.S.
Army in Germany (and a third place finish in the European
Armed Forces pool tournament), Mark committed himself to
a
career as a painter.
Mark began studying art under many contemporary artists
including Joe Abbrescia, recognized as "one of America's
most accomplished impressionist painters", Robert
Cavanaugh, Ace Powell, and the late Bud Helbig of the
Cowboy Artists of America.
Mark has earned a substantial reputation as one of the
most talented landscape painters in America. His bold,
colorful oil paintings and soft pastel watercolors have
attracted the attention of private and corporate art
collectors throughout the United States, Canada, and
Europe.
Mark has won many of the top artistic awards in the
Northwest and Canada, including "Best of Show Awards":
Wilson Hurley, one of the greatest living landscape
artists in America, judged Mark's work Best of Show at
the
Kalispell Art Show & Auction in 1979. He won the same
award again in 1982 from show judges Betty Harvey, a
nationally known art editor and critic, and Mary Hunter,
owner of the Hunter Gallery in San Francisco. In 1981 he
won Best of Show at the Stockmans Federation show in
Calgary, Alberta. In 1982 Mark was the first recipient of
the Ace Powell Memorial Award. From 1987 thru 1998 Mark
was placed four times in the Top 100 of the prestigious
Arts for the Parks competition. This competition is
sponsored by the National Parks Academy of the Arts and
is
a national competition. Mark is among only a handful of
American artists to receive this award four times! The
New
Horizons competition in Las Vegas awarded Mark Best of
Show in 1999.
His work has been on tour throughout the Nation including
the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC. He has been
featured in Southwest Art and Art of the West magazines,
and in a new book from International Fine Art Collector
Press, The New American Impressionism.
In the pursuit of art, Mark has found himself traveling
around the globe. As the featured artist in the first
western art exhibition ever to appear in the Republic of
Ireland, Mark's work completely sold out and received
great critical acclaim. Selected as a delegate to
represent Montana and the Arts by the Montana Chamber of
Commerce he traveled to Komoto, Japan as an honored guest
of the Japanese. From painting in the vast and beautiful
locations of our National Parks to dock-side marinas or a
quaint street scene, Mark finds himself at home around
the
world.
Mark Ogle Studios / 236 2nd. Ave W / Kalispell, Montana 59901
phone: 406-752-4217 / e-mail