Ron Raz
Leonard Roy Frank
 Leonard Roy Frank
 Robert F. Arbegast
Paul M. Deegan
Dirk B.G. Dirksen
Damon M. Molloy
John David Hough
Wayman R. Spence
Edmund Vandenberg
Ron Raz
Dean Glassbrook
Jacques Andrian Janvier
Author of many books, among them the Quotationary Dictionary (published by Random House) and one of the most prominent human rights activists, building a nation-wide human rights movement, exposing the abuses of psychiatry and electroshock treatment in the U.S. over the past thirty years. Discovered G. Mark Mulleian in 1969, introducing his works to the public for the first time at the Frank Gallery in San Francisco, launching the artist's career on a national and international scale.
Robert F. Arbegast
Lead trainer in IBM Mainframe programming and lead instructor at AT&T Professional Development Center and a pro-active consultant. Mr. Arbegast became aware of Mulleian’s paintings in the mid 1970s, became instrumental in promoting Mulleian’s works through his published articles and reproduction lithograph prints, which would also lead to the development of this website, www.mulleian.com , designed and built by Arbegast in dedication to Mulleian’s paintings.
Paul M. Deegan
Editor and consultant of biographical texts, patron, and confidante, Paul Deegan first met Mulleian in 2002 and they became close friends. Inspired by Mulleian's paintings and the artists intuitive intellectual depth, Deegan writes: "superlatives cannot adequately express the experience of seeing Mulleian's paintings. Truly amazing work, both technically and conceptually, and a sublime pleasure in discovering and exploring the many layers that each of his paintings reveals."
Dirk B.G. Dirksen
Dirksen-Molloy Productions and broadcast television. Producer of television, programming since 1957 for KTTV-LA, ABC TV, and the driving force behind the new music revolution of the mid-1970s. Dirksen-Molloy Productions is also home to public information program, Positive Spin, produced by Unity Foundation of San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other markets nationally. Dirksen discovered Mulleian through German magazines and newspapers, and became instrumental in public relations in the world of television, magazines and newspapers.
Damon M. Molloy
Dirksen-Molloy Productions and broadcast television. Damon M. Molloy was introduced to Mulleian's works by Dirk Dirksen in the mid-1990s. Currently Dirksen and Damon Molloy (of the Dirksen-Molloy Productions) are currently working on a broadcast interview and documentary on Mulleian and his paintings, soon to
be televised nation wide.
John David Hough
Renowned photographer for national magazines and newspapers. David Hough met Mulleian for the first time in 1974 through a photographic assignment for After Dark Magazine out of New York for a special issue focused on seventy two personalities and pace-setters of the city of San Francisco- including notables ranging from Saiji Ozawa and Sylvester, to Charles Pierce, Scott Beach, Herb Caen, and Mark Mulleian. Soon after, David Hough became Mulleian''s personal public relations photographer.
Wayman R. Spence
Heritage Gallery Collection of Dr. Wayman Spence, Physician, Inventor, writer, publisher and art collector. Dr. Spence is chairman of the board of W.R. Spence Group, Inc. Wayman Spence discovered the works of Mulleian at a featured exhibit at Gallery On The Square, San Francisco's North Beach in the late 1980s. Awe-stricken by the show-piece painting entitled Dies Irae by Mulleian in its incredible power and technique, Wayan Spence could not resist the painting, and would buy the rights to publish this work for reproductions and later, published in an international book, The Healing Arts.
Artist's model and writer, met Mulleian in 1969 and, devoted to Mulleian and his works, became public relations correspondent for the artist. Ron Raz's modeling for Mulleian, which the press could not ignore, propelled Raz's own modeling career to new heights. He was soon discovered by New York's Rock Shots Publishing, which led him to national notoriety in print modeling.
Dean Glassbrook
Jacques Andrian Janvier
In 1975, while standing on the steps of the Grubstake just off of Polk on Pine Street in San Francisco, Mark Mulleian would meet Dean Glassbrook, at a critical point in Mulleian''s life. When Glassbrook would turn the corner and find himself starring into the glistening of a gem ruby (sewn on the upper thigh of a Levis), and the shimmer of a Moroccan coin necklace, medallion, leads Dean to immediate eye to eye contact with Mulleian. In fascination, as a freelance writer, Dean Glassbrook would write several published newspaper articles on the artist through the late 70's.
A French aristocrat and San Francisco eccentric, artist and photographer, who lived for awhile in Paris, Versailles, and the south of France, where he found unlimited subject matter for his photography. Janvier first discovered Mulleian's work at the Frank Gallery in 1970, where they would both eventually meet in 1971 and would become lifelong friends, a relationship in which worldviews, political analysis, creative processes and new ideas were shared in an inexhaustible dialogue for over thirty years.
Noted photographer, promoter, publisher and owner of the Visual Experience Gallery. Vandenberg introduced himself to Mulleian in 1973 and soon after became a public relations manager for the artist. From 1976 through 1982 Vandenberg arranged an exclusive exhibit of Mulleian's paintings at his San Francisco gallery.
Art Fry
Public relations man who was the first to bring to the attention of Herb Caen the paintings of Mark Mulleian in 1971.
Brian Jennings
In January 1973, The Advocate (a national political gay newspaper, the biggest of its kind in the U.S.) published one of the biggest feature stories on an individual of its day, Mulleian's coming out, by freelance writer Brian Jennings.
Karl H. Lohmann
Freelance writer for the German-based international magazines HIM and California Freie Presse, produced two feature stories on Mulleian which appeared in 1973.
Rev. Ray Broshears
Publisher of the Gay Crusader, (a bi-weekly San Francisco based periodical), publishes several stories on Mulleian from 1976-79.
Edmund Vandenberg
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Brian Jennings
Karl H. Lohmann
Art Fry
Rev. Ray Broshears
This Gold Tassel once hung in a
box seat at
San Francisco's
Fox Theater.
The Palace theater was torn down
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As a dancer of the 1960s Deegan trained with Allen Howard and Marguerite Brach at Pacific Ballet Studio and Jack Cook at S.F State, Deegan studied classical mime with Jacques Lecoq at his Rue du Bac school, and ballet at the Place Clichy studios in Paris, and later with Barbara Weisberger's Pennsylvania Ballet Company, performed with, guest soloists Margot Fonteyn and Rudolph Nureyev.
Stanley Medders
Stanley Medders
Writer, composed a major story on Mulleian for United Press International.
Bart John
Writer Stanley Medders, one of Americas noted conservationists and prolific writer on the environment for two decades of the 1970s and 80s, published an insightful article on Mark Mulleian in 1972. Mr. Medders, acclaimed for his numerous feature contributions to National Parks Conservation Magazine” as well as to California Living” (a special feature of the weekend editions of the San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle), became a powerful and respected voice in protecting our national parks and deserts through his writings.
Leo Hills
Leo Hills
Leo Hills, owner of the Continental Art Gallery on Stockton Street, (at San Francisco’s Union Square location), in collaboration with Leonard Roy Frank, arranged Mulleian’s first feature exhibit with Beniamino Buffano in 1969. This would lead to Mulleian’s ultimate exhibit at the Frank Gallery, also with Buffano. Upon Bufano's death in 1970, manager Leonard Frank arranged an ongoing exclusive exhibit of Mulleian's paintings which lasted through the mid 1970s. The Frank Gallery became a landmark exhibition venue in San Francisco.
Gail Hazard
Writer and head curator for the Stockton Museum,
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posed articles on Mulleian which appeared in major northern California newspapers in 1976.
In 1972 Mr. Medders produced the insightful and perceptive article on the artist entitled Portrait Of A Man As A Young Artist”, a comprehensive study describing the artist’s transcendent insights, written in a personal, novelistic style after spending a year studying the artist, his work and public reaction to his paintings.
Gail Hazard
Dean Goodman
Dean Goodman, playwright, actor, theatre critic and freelance writer, was one of the first to do what proved to be the biggest story on Mulleian during the 70’s; an in-depth article which appeared in 1973 in In Touch Magazine, a national publication based out of Los Angeles.
Dean Goodman
In Dedication
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hose who by their tireless effort and dedication
help
make possible in bringing forth into the public
consciousness the works of G. Mark Mulleian
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Bill McCarthy
In 2005, Bill McCarthy and artist G. Mark Mulleian first met through a film project being devloped by Damon Molloy, chief editor at the Dirkson/Molloy Production Studios in San Francisco. Molloy was putting together a biographical documentary of the artist's paintings which featured Mulleian's signature work, Dies Irae.
Molloy shared details of his post-production progress with Bill McCarthy, who was highly impressed, but most especially so with Dies Irae. McCarthy immediately spoke with the artist by phone and expressed his admiration of the work. This brief conversation eventually led to Mulleians being featured on numerous airings of Positive Spin, in a series of documentaries exploring the artist’s work and activism since 2006.
President of Unity Foundation, television producer and host of Positive Spin (a national news magazine)
Bill McCarthy