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.
Manhattan Fifteenth Year Reader; 1995: The Grim Years
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Handmade book with 51 collaged linocuts by Mark Beard, also painted and hand-colored by the artist Signed and numbered in pencil Text by Mark Beard, silkscreened in the artist's han...
Linocut
Nineteen Famous People, Twenty-Two Friends, and Six Nudes
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Handmade portfolio of 47 Polaroid transfer prints with accompanying text by Mark Beard, handwritten in pencil (Edition of 10 + 5 APs) Signed and numbered in pencil 15.75 x 11.75 x ...
Photogravure
$941
H 29.53 in W 38.98 in
Hibiscus - XXI century, Linocut, Flower, Contemporary Figurative Art
By Marta Bozyk
Located in Warsaw, PL
Hibiscus - Linocut Black and White XXI century, Linocut, Flower, Figurative Art MARTA BOZYK (1973). A graduate of the Graphic Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. She...
Linocut
$294
H 7.68 in W 5.52 in
Incarnation 4. Young artist, Figurative print Linocut, Black & white, Polish art
By Luiza Kasprzyk
Located in Warsaw, PL
Black and white contemporary figurative linocut by Polish artist Luiza Kasprzyk. Artwork comes from limited edition of 50. Print depicts bodies permeating each other. LUIZA KASPRZY...
Paper, Linocut
King of Pop III (Limited Edition Print)
By Mauro Oliveira
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Celebrating the King of Pop Michael Jackson by Mauro Oliveira. The colorful pinstripes represent the music and the happiness the King of Pop brought to the...
Giclée
$235
H 11.82 in W 8.86 in
Pierre - XXI Century Contemporary Linocut Print, Surrealism, Black & white
By Anna Gawlikowska
Located in Warsaw, PL
Anna Gawlikowska is a Polish artist born in 1980. She studied printmaking, painting, and graphic design at the Academy of Fine Arts of Wroclaw in Poland in the workshops of professor...
Paper, Linocut
MJ: Super Pop III (Limited Edition Print)
By Mauro Oliveira
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Celebrating the King of Pop Michael Jackson by Mauro Oliveira. The colorful pinstripes represent the music and the happiness the King of Pop brought to the world. Limited edition of...
Giclée
MJ: SUPER POP I (Limited Edition Print)
By Mauro Oliveira
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Celebrating the King of Pop Michael Jackson by Mauro Oliveira. The colorful pinstripes represent the music and the happiness the King of Pop brought to the world. Limited edition of...
Giclée
King of Pop IV (Limited Edition Print)
By Mauro Oliveira
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Celebrating the King of Pop Michael Jackson by Mauro Oliveira. The colorful pinstripes represent the music and the happiness the King of Pop brought to the world. Limited edition of...
Giclée
$294
H 7.88 in W 5.12 in
Incarnation 6. Young artist, Figurative print Linocut, Black & white, Polish art
By Luiza Kasprzyk
Located in Warsaw, PL
Black and white contemporary figurative linocut by Polish artist Luiza Kasprzyk. Artwork comes from limited edition of 50. Print depicts bodies permeating each other. LUIZA KASPRZY...
Paper, Linocut
$646
H 6.89 in W 5.52 in
Curtain - XX century, Contemporary Black & White Linocut Print
By Franciszek Bunsch
Located in Warsaw, PL
One of 30 copies. FRANCISZEK BUNSCH (born in 1926) Franciszek Bunsch was born in Bielsko in 1926. He studied painting under the guidance of prof. Eugeniusz Eibisch and graphic art as...
Paper, Linocut
$1,164
H 39.38 in W 27.56 in
Nude 6. Contemporary Figurative & abstract Linocut, Polish artist
By Marta Garbaczewska
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative limited edition linocut print on paper by Polish artist Marta Garbaczewska. Artwork depicts female nude in an abstract manner. Composition is beige and yellow...
Linocut
King of Pop IV (Limited Edition Print)
By Mauro Oliveira
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Celebrating the King of Pop Michael Jackson by Mauro Oliveira. The colorful pinstripes represent the music and the happiness the King of Pop brought to the world. Limited edition of...
Giclée
$1,164
H 27.56 in W 39.38 in
Forest - Contemporary Linocut, Flora, Nature, Polish artist, Young art
By Marta Garbaczewska
Located in Warsaw, PL
MARTA GARBACZEWSKA (born 1987) - Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Diploma in 2012 in the studio of prof. Maria Targońska, annex by prof. Czesław Tumielewicz. PROVENAN...
Linocut