^Lot 141 Mark Swanson Original Oil on Canvas.

Depicts cowboy wrangling calf in heard. Circa 2006. Mark Swanson was born in 1958 in South Dakota and raised in California. Although his uncles, Ray and Gary Swanson, paved the way by achieving notable success as painters, Swanson initially had no plans to follow in their footsteps. He originally wanted to be a linguist, and pursued studies in Scandinavian languages to the extent that he has been known to dream in Norwegian. "Then I took an art class and got turned on." It was during high school that Swanson went to Europe and spent several weeks studying ancient civilizations, art history and the great masters. Now, Swanson draws and paints cowboys and mountain men, a genre which was inspired by his uncle Gary Swanson, who had a studio in Wyoming where Swanson spent a couple of months at the beginning of his painting career. A letter is attached to the back of this painting signed by Mark Swanson on behalf of he and his wife, gifting their good friends the painting. Painting measures 29 1/2" x 18"; framed in natural wood frame measures 39 1/2" x 28".