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
$790
H 20.48 in W 16.54 in D 0.04 in
Femme Nu, Lithograph, Modern, 1952, Framed, Excellent
By Henri Matisse
Located in OPOLE, PL
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - Femme Nu Photogravure from 1952. Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.4 cm Publisher: Tériade, Paris. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast and secure sh...
Photogravure
La Pique - Linocut After Pablo Picasso - 1962
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Roma, IT
La Pique is a contemporary artwork realized after Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). Color linocut realized in smaller size after a linocut by Pablo Picasso of 1959. Passepartout included...
Linocut
$859
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
ISRAEL (1951 Mexican Homage Poster)
By Fanny Rabel
Located in Santa Monica, CA
FANNY RABEL (1922 – 2008) and ALBERTO BELTRAN (B. 1923 ISRAEL - 2 Conferencias por Vocente Lombardo 1951 (P.134) Linocut in 3...
Linocut
$1,375
H 9.45 in W 7.29 in D 0.2 in
Tartarin - Rare Book Illustrated by George Grosz - 1921
By George Grosz
Located in Roma, IT
Tartarin (Original title "Die Abenteuer des herrn Tartarin aus Tarascon") is an original modern rare book written by Alphonse Daudet (Nimes, 1840 – 1897) and illustrated by George Gr...
Paper, Photogravure
$1,285
H 13.87 in W 14.87 in
"Swimmers, " Seascape Linoleum Cut by Clarice George Logan
By Clarice George Logan
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Swimmers" is an original linoleum print by Clarice George Logan. It features five figures enjoying a swim, jumping off from a small boat. Image: 4.94" x 6" Framed: 13.87" x 14.87" Clarice George Logan was born in Mayville, New York in 1909 but moved to Wisconsin in 1921. She attended the Milwaukee State Teachers College from 1927 to 1931 where she studied with Robert von Neumann...
Linocut
NO OLVIDEMOS A JULIUS Y ETHEL ROSENBERG
By Ángel Bracho
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ANGEL BRACHO (b. 1911 -) NO OLVIDEMOS A JULIUS Y ETHEL ROSENBERG…….1953 (P. 151) Linocut and letterpress 36 13/16 x 26 9/16” Some ...
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
$7,500
H 20 in W 16 in
THE FARMER AND CHILDREN (A NEW ENGLAND FAMILY, or THE FATHER).
By Marguerite Thompson Zorach
Located in Portland, ME
Zorach, Marguerite. THE FARMER AND CHILDREN (also titled A NEW ENGLAND FAMILY, or THE FATHER). Linoleum cut, circa 1917. Titled, Signed, and dated 1920 in pencil in the margin and si...
Linocut
$30,800
H 34 in W 30 in
Peintre Dessinant et Modèle Nu au Chapeau, Linocut, Signed, Edition of 160
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Naples, Florida
Linocut on Arches wove paper Signed lower right Edition 145/160, apart from an edition of 35 AP Printed by Hidalgo Arnéra, Imprimerie Arnéra, Vallauris ...
Archival Paper, Linocut
Confrontation
By Richard Bosman
Located in New York, NY
Richard Bosman is a painter and printmaker known for his woodcuts depicting turbulent seascapes. He studied at Bryam Shaw School of Painting and Drawing in London, The New York Studi...
Linocut
$435
H 13.78 in W 9.85 in D 0.4 in
Danse Macabre - Rare Book Engraved by Frans Masereel - 1941
By Frans Masereel
Located in Roma, IT
Danse Macabre is an original Rare Book illustrated by Frans Masereel (1889 – 1972) in 1941. Original Edition. 950 numbered copies. Published by Lang, ...
Photogravure