Description: Please see full description for details. Vintage GUNSMOKE Show Original Handmade Title Card Cel Art CBS On-Air TV Bumper Original vintage Gunsmoke TV show handmade cel art television bumper on-air title graphic. Created by listed artist Vahe Kirishjian (1913-1988) Vahe Levon Kirishjian was born in 1913 in Cairo, Egypt. His parents were Armenian refugees, who immigrated to New York City in 1922, when he was nine years old. His father, Avedis Kirchdijian, changed the family’s name to Kirishjian and was himself an artist, who specialized in photoengraving. Vahe graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in 1932 and then attended The Cooper Union Art School at night, while working for the Advertising Department of the Daily News. For four years, he studied mural painting, fine arts, life painting, and commercial design. Shortly after his graduation from Cooper Union, he was awarded a prestigious mural commission in Washington, D.C., for the Post Office Department building, which is now the William Jefferson Clinton Federal building. In 1940, at the age of 27, he completed the eight-panel mural series, titled The Four Seasons and Signs of the Zodiac, on the ceiling of the building’s library. Kirishjian drew maps for the Army Map Service during World War II and, by the 1950s, he was hired as a television art director in the Graphics Arts Department at the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), where he worked for 30 years. He designed graphics, illustrations, charts, maps, and promotional materials for CBS-TV, working on such programs as The Honeymooners, The Ed Sullivan Show, Captain Kangaroo, and Playhouse 90. As a freelance cartographic artist, he also drew maps for Fortune Magazine, Reader’s Digest, and several airlines, such as American Airlines, TWA, and Northwest Orient Airlines. In 1973, Kirishjian completed two large paintings depicting Saints Sahag and Mesrob, the founders of the Armenian alphabet, for Saint Vartan Armenian Cathedral in New York City. Measures 16 7/8" wide x 13 3/4" tall overall including black matte board. Handmade multi-layer construction. One of the layers has actual cigarette type burns in the material to simulate gun shot holes. Back marked "f96-RP-7-5" handwritten in pencil. Please check out our other listings for more CBS TV graphics from the same artist. Estate fresh in excellent vintage condition. Displays beautifully and would look great in a frame. Images sell! Get Supersized Images & Free Image Hosting Attention Sellers - Get Templates Image Hosting, Scheduling at Auctiva.com.
Price: 99.99 USD
Location: Highland Park, New Jersey
End Time: 2025-01-07T01:39:00.000Z
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Industry: Television
Type: Cel Art TV bumper
