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Mark BeardFive Gymnasts in Training (Large Academic Style Figurative Painting of Athletes)unknown
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- CreatorMark Beard (1956, American)
- Creation Yearunknown
- DimensionsHeight: 84 in. (213.36 cm)Width: 84 in. (213.36 cm)Depth: 2 in. (5.08 cm)
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- Gallery LocationHudson, NY
- Reference Number1stDibs: LU2274659342
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About the Artist
Mark Beard
Contemporary New York City-based artist Mark Beard has long demonstrated command in a variety of mediums — he works in oil paint, bronze, ceramics and more. Beard is known mainly for his portraits and figurative paintings, but he is prolific in figurative drawing and nude photography as well.
Beard was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1986, he began working as a set designer, and for the next decade, he created more than 20 sets in New York City, London, Frankfurt, Vienna and Cologne. As a painter and printmaker, Beard didn’t wish to confine himself to a rigid style and instead sought to explore Impressionism, Art Nouveau and other movements in a range of mediums. In order to freely move from one style to the next, Beard created several different personas, assigning a specific biography to each one.
Beard's most prominent artistic alter ego is Bruce Sargeant, whom the artist has positioned in exhibitions as an early 20th-century painter. Beard's work as Sargeant is a detailed study of the male physique. The paintings often feature sculpted athletic men engaged in physical activities like wrestling and rowing. The work is steeped in homoeroticism, and the artist’s name itself is a reference to painter John Singer Sargent — while he’s best known for his Edwardian-era portraits, John Singer Sargent also created murals and drawings of male nudes that were similarly reflective of a homoerotic sensibility.
Beard is also an accomplished landscape painter. His great-grandfather, George Beard, was a regional painter and photographer of the Rocky Mountains. Mark spent summers at his grandfather's 19th-century log cabin retreat as a child. These formative experiences are reflected in his own stunning landscape paintings.
Beard's artwork is held in many high-profile museum collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Today, Beard resides in the Manhattan loft that he purchased in 1994 with his partner, James Manfred. It serves as both his home and his studio. The space is filled with his oil paintings, drawings and sculptures.
On 1stDibs, find Mark Beard paintings, drawings, photography and more.
- By Mark BeardLocated in Hudson, NYAcademic style figurative oil painting on canvas of two men dressing in a ski lodge "Dressing in the Lodge," Pa...Category
2010s Academic Figurative Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- By Mark BeardLocated in Hudson, NYAcademic style figurative oil painting on canvas of a young man undressing in a rural camp setting with a mounta...Category
2010s Academic Figurative Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- By Mark BeardLocated in Hudson, NYAcademic style figurative painting of four young athletes running and on bicycles "Frieze with Two Men on Bikes"...Category
2010s Academic Figurative Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- By Mark BeardLocated in Hudson, NYAcademic style figurative painting of fiveyoung athletes running and on bicycles "Frieze with Five Athletes", pa...Category
2010s Academic Figurative Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- By Mark BeardLocated in Hudson, NYAcademic figurative oil painting of a muscular male athlete with a vintage green wrestling uniform "Wrestler in ...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Figurative Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- By Mark BeardLocated in Hudson, NYModern, academic style portrait painting on canvas of a young athletic male oil on canvas, 28 x 22 inches unfra...Category
2010s Academic Portrait Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
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