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.
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
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
Jeune fille
By Henri Matisse
Located in OPOLE, PL
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - Jeune fille Photogravure from 1937. Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.4 cm Publisher: Tériade, Paris. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast and secure...
Photogravure
$1,650
H 16 in W 17.75 in
Barbara Latham 1950s Modernist Linocut “Saturday Morning, Taos Plaza”
By Barbara Latham
Located in Denver, CO
A vibrant celebration of Taos life and culture, Saturday Morning (Market, Taos Plaza, New Mexico) is a striking 1950s modernist linocut print by acclaimed New Mexico artist Barbara L...
Linocut
Carnaval
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) was one of the most transformative figures of 20th-century art. A restless innovator, his work reshaped the possibilities of representation across painting,...
Linocut
$450
H 12 in W 9 in
Feminist Judaica Linocut Relief Print Basya Wuensch Kabbalah Sefirot Hebrew Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Basya Wuensch Sefirot, Netzach (victory, endurance, eternity) Woman with Tree 2023 Hand printed color linocut on cold pressed watercolor paper Hand signed and numbered 12 X 9 inches Basya Wuensch Reiter...
Linocut
$874
H 9.34 in W 7.6 in D 0.4 in
Aurelia - Rare Book Illustrated by Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin - 1910
Located in Roma, IT
Aurelia is an original modern rare book written written by Gérard Labrunie (Paris, 1808 – Paris, 1855) and illustrated by Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin (Leitmeritz, 1877 – Zwickledt, 1959) in 1910. Original First Edition. Published by Georg Muller, München/Leipzig. Format: Large 8°. The book includes 146 pages with 57 drawings (several are full page drawings). Binding by Paul Renner Mint conditions. Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin (Leitmeritz, 1877 – Zwickledt, 1959) in 1910. He was an Austrian printmaker, illustrator, and occasional writer. Kubin is considered an important representative of Symbolism and Expressionism. Kubin is considered an important representative of Symbolism and Expressionism and is noted for dark, spectral, symbolic fantasies, often assembled into thematic series of drawings. Like Oskar Kokoschka and Albert Paris Gütersloh, Kubin had both artistic and literary talent. He illustrated the works of Edgar Allan Poe, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Fyodor Dostoevsky...
Paper, Photogravure
$450
H 12 in W 9 in
Feminist Judaica Linocut Relief Print Basya Wuensch Kabbalah Sefirot Hebrew Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Basya Wuensch Sefirot, Malchus (royalty, kingship, humility) Motherhood, Woman with baby in womb 2023 Hand printed color linocut on cold pressed watercolor paper Hand signed and numbered 12 X 9 inches Basya Wuensch Reiter...
Linocut
$2,695
H 19 in W 16.5 in
Plate 6: Mais Soudain le Soleil, Secouant sa Criniere, from Pasiphae
By Henri Matisse
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Henri Matisse Title: Plate 6: Mais Soudain le Soleil, Secouant sa Criniere (But Suddenly the Sun, Shaking its Mane) Portfolio: Pasiphae Medium: Linocut on Arches vellum Year:...
Linocut
$450
H 12 in W 9 in
Feminist Judaica Linocut Relief Print Basya Wuensch Kabbalah Sefirot Hebrew Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Basya Wuensch Sefirot, Gevura (strength, restraint) Childbirth, Delivery 2023 Hand printed color linocut on cold pressed watercolor paper Hand signed and numbered 12 X 9 inches Basya Wuensch Reiter...
Linocut
Femme endormie (Dormeuse), By Pablo Picasso
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Femme endormie [Dormeuse] By Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso, a pioneering Spanish artist, co-founded the Cubist movement and played a pivotal role in the development of modern art dur...
Archival Paper, Linocut
$209
H 9.85 in W 5.91 in D 0.4 in
Les Réfugiés - Rare Book illustrated by André Masson - 1942
By André Masson
Located in Roma, IT
Les Réfugiés is an original Rare Book illustrated by Frans Masereel (1889 – 1972) and written by Louis Piérard (Frameries,1886 - Paris, 1951) in 1942. Original First Edition. Published by Arthaud Editeur, Grenoble. Format: Small 8°. The dimensions and the weight are indicative. The book includes 116 pages with 9 full page reproductions of drawings. Good conditions. Frans Masereel (1889 – 1972). He was a Flemish painter and graphic artist who worked mainly in France, known especially for his woodcuts focused on political and social issues, such as war and capitalism. He completed over 40 wordless novels in his career, and among these, his greatest is generally said to be Passionate Journey. Masereel's woodcuts influenced Lynd Ward and later graphic artists such as Clifford Harper, Eric Drooker, and Otto Nückel. Masereel's woodcuts influenced Lynd Ward and later graphic artists such as George Walker, Clifford Harper, Eric Drooker, and New Yorker cartoonist Peter Arno. Masereel's woodcut series, mainly of sociocritical content and expressionistic in form, made Masereel internationally known. Among them were the wordless novels 25 Images of a Man's Passion (1918), Passionate Journey (1919), The Sun (1919), The Idea (1920), Story Without Words (1920), and Landscapes and Voices (1929). At that time Masereel also drew illustrations for famous works of world literature by Thomas Mann, Émile Zola, and Stefan Zweig.
Photogravure
$450
H 12 in W 9 in
Feminist Judaica Linocut Relief Print Basya Wuensch Kabbalah Sefirot Hebrew Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Basya Wuensch Sefirot, Tiferet (beauty in harmony) Family, 2023 Hand printed color linocut on cold pressed watercolor paper Hand signed and numbered 12 X 9 inches Basya Wuensch Reiter...
Linocut
$1,633
H 10.83 in W 8.67 in D 0.4 in
Der Todseher - Rare Book Illustrated by Alfred Kubin - 1910
Located in Roma, IT
Der Todseher is an original modern rare book written by Ernst Adolf Willkomm (Herwigsdorf, 1810 - Zittau, 1886) and illustrated by Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin (Leitmeritz, 1877 – Zwickledt, 1959) in 1910. Original Edition. Published by Barsdorf, Berlin. 30 numbered copies of deluxe issue. Format: in 8°. The book includes 284 pages with six full page drawings. Mint conditions. Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin (Leitmeritz, 1877 – Zwickledt, 1959) in 1910. He was an Austrian printmaker, illustrator, and occasional writer. Kubin is considered an important representative of Symbolism and Expressionism. Kubin is considered an important representative of Symbolism and Expressionism and is noted for dark, spectral, symbolic fantasies, often assembled into thematic series of drawings. Like Oskar Kokoschka and Albert Paris Gütersloh, Kubin had both artistic and literary talent. He illustrated the works of Edgar Allan Poe, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Fyodor Dostoevsky, among others. Kubin also illustrated the German fantasy magazine Der Orchideengarten. Ernst Adolf Willkomm (Herwigsdorf, 1810 - Zittau, 1886). Willkomm was a German writer. Willkomm has published time-critical novels, travel sketches and short stories. With the title of his novel Die Europamüden in 1838 he took up a key word that had been coined by Heine in 1828 and with which an important aspect of thinking in the Vormärz was recorded. In the years 1845/46 Willkomm undertook a trip to Italy, whose experiences he processed in 1847 in the travel sketches Italian...
Paper, Photogravure