Original Artwork

Bill Murcko

Born and educated in Michigan, and a summer resident of Mackinac Island for 25 years, Bill has spent most of his career as an award winning advertising and creative executive.  He has loved the arts his whole life.  A strong desire to improve his portrait painting skills drove him to enroll in his first formal oil painting class - at age 48.  Murcko's formal art instruction continued with the Burmingham Bloomfield Art Association and workshops in Santa Fe, New Mexico and with the Academy of Realistic Art from Seattle, Washington.  In 1996 he was selected for a special tutoring program in New York City conducted by nationally known portrait painter John Howard Sanden.  Bill describes the collaborative study with amateur and professional painters as a valuable experience which has helped to shape his style.  However, Murcko acknowledges that he is primarily self-taught.  Late night hours spent painting in his home or in his studio at the Scarab Club in Detroit has honed his talent.  In 1999, Murcko studied in the School of Realistic Art in France, and in 2000 attended the Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy.  From there Murcko moved on to further study at the New York Academy of Figurative Art in New York City.  A trip to Kenya, Africa provided the inspiration for his first solo show.  Murcko was moved by the noble and beautiful Maasai people.  On his return home, Murcko produced an amazing body of powerful portraits that was presented as "Capturing the magic of the Maasai on canvas".

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Description

Price

  Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:    Chippewa Pride

Original Oil on Canvas

 

 

$2595.00

SOLD

 

  Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:    Mackinac Native

Original Oil on Canvas

 

 

$995.00

SOLD

  Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:    Native Grandson

Original Oil on Canvas

 

 

$2195.00

SOLD

Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:    Hot Iron

Original Oil on Canvas

16x20

 

 

$1950.00

 

  Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:    Round Island Lighthouse at Dawn

Original Oil on Canvas

11x14

 

 

$895.00

SOLD

 

Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:    Girl in the Flowered Dress

Original Oil on Canvas

14x11

 

 

$995.00

 

  Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:    Knitting at the McGulpin House

Original Oil on Canvas

12x12

 

 

$1295.00

SOLD

 

  Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:    Cutting the Fudge

Original Oil on Canvas

8x10

 

$795.00

SOLD

Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:    Pearl Earring

Original Oil on Canvas

9x12

 

$895.00 

 

Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:   Straw Hat

Original Oil on Canvas

10x10

 

$895.00 

 

Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:    My Black Fan

Original Oil on Canvas

11x17

 

$995.00 

 

  Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:    Rebecca

Original Oil on Canvas

8x10

 

$795.00 

SOLD

 

Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:    Blue Eyes

Original Oil on Canvas

8x10

 

$695.00 

 

Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:    Barack Obama

Original Oil on Canvas

24x24

 

$3950.00 

 

Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:    Blacksmith II

Original Oil on Canvas

12x12

$995.00 
  Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:    British Soldier

Original Oil on Canvas

12x16

$1200.00 

SOLD

 

  Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:    Sarah

Original Oil on Canvas

15 1/2 x 11 1/2

$895.00

SOLD

Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:    Union Yellow Beard

Original Oil on Canvas

19 1/2 x 15 1/2

 
$895.00
Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:    Fort Reenactor

Original Oil on Canvas

11x14

 
$795.00
  Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:    Foggy Morning at Mackinac

Original Oil on Canvas

8 x 10

 

$650.00

SOLD

Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:    Gazebo at Mission Point

Original Oil on Canvas

8 x 10

 

$895.00
  Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:    Lady Slipper

Original Oil on Canvas

8 x 10

 

$595.00

SOLD

  Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:    Harbor Gull

Original Oil on Canvas

11 x 14

 

$595.00

SOLD

  Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:    The Arcade

Original Oil on Canvas

9 x 12

 

$995.00

SOLD

  Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:    The Blacksmith

Original Oil on Canvas

12 x 12

 

SOLD
  Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:    Making Fudge

Original Oil on Canvas

9 x 12

 

SOLD
  Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:    Street Cleaner

Original Oil on Canvas

9 x 12

 

SOLD

 

  Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:    Storm Coming

Original Oil on Canvas

12 x 16

 

SOLD

 

Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:    Top of Mission Hill

Original Oil on Canvas

 

 
$995.00
  Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:    Arnold Transit Dock

Original Oil on Canvas

13 1/2 x 17 1/4 

 

$1200.00

SOLD

Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:   Fort Mackinac

Original Oil on Canvas

11 1/2 x 15 1/4 

 
$895.00
Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:   Round Island Passage Light

Original Oil on Canvas

10 1/2 x 13 1/2

 
$895.00
   

Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:    Arch Rock

Original Oil on Canvas

13 1/2 x 10 1/4

 
SOLD
  Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:   Sugar Loaf

Original Oil on Canvas

8 1/2 x 11 1/2

 
$650.00

SOLD

Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:   View From East Bluff

Original Oil on Canvas

15 1/2 x 19 1/2

 
$1200.00
  Artist:  Bill Murcko

Title:    Trinity Episcopal

Original Oil on Canvas

13 1/2 x 10 1/4

 
$595.00

SOLD

       

 

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