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.
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[Edith Thayer Cromwell (1893-1962)] Elephant
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
[Edith Thayer Cromwell (1893-1962)] Elephant n.d. Signed, u.r. Oil on canvas 23 x 29 inches This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Oil
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Mark Beard, [Edith Thayer Cromwell (1893-1962)] On the Move
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
A painting by Mark Beard under his pen name "Edith Thayer Cromwell) entitled "On the Move" Edith Thayer Cromwell (1893-1962)] On the Move n.d. Signed, u.l. Oil on canvas 40 x 33....
Canvas, Oil
Allow Me to Be Your Friend
By Roxana Khonkulova
Located in Zofingen, AG
“Allow Me to Be Your Friend” is a formulation that sounds both like a choice and a risk at the same time. Here, closeness emerges in the moment of acknowledgment - when a person offe...
Canvas, Oil
$2,400
H 23.5 in W 28.5 in
"In Our Nature", Dog in Landscape with Tennis Balls Oil Painting
By Katherine Fraser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"In Our Nature" is an original oil on canvas painting by American painter Katherine Fraser measuring 23.5”h x 28.5”w. This piece is from Katherine's newest series, which just recent...
Canvas, Oil
$8,900
H 36 in W 36 in
Zu Sheng Yu "Sanctuary", 36x36 Winter Tree Snow Blue Jay Landscape Oil Painting
By Zu Sheng Yu
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
"Sanctuary" by Zu Sheng Yu is a 36x36 oil painting on canvas. This painting depicts a calm snowy scene, with overlapping branches from brown trees from the foreground leading to the...
Canvas, Oil
Bird on Branch contemporary landscape
By Katherine Kean
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This small-scale painting presents a familiar joy, that of a little bird that is one of many daily garden guests. The tiny bird perches on the crisscrossing stems of a bright pink fl...
Cotton Canvas, Oil
$5,566
H 16.74 in W 20.67 in
Bellerofonte e la Chimera Oil Painting on Canvas Lion Dragon Mythology In Stock
By Giovanni Tommasi Ferroni
Located in Utrecht, NL
Bellerofante e la Chimera Oil Painting on Canvas Lion Dragon Mythology In Stock - Size without frame 30 x 40 cm; With frame 42,5 x 52,5 cm Giovanni Tommasi...
Canvas, Oil
$3,750
H 15 in W 18 in
Brooke Major, "Catch Me if You Can", 15x18 Sculptural White Horse Oil Painting
By Brooke Major
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
"Catch Me if You Can", 15x18 is an oil painting on canvas by the artist Brooke Major. Depicted in white is a line wild horses mid run. The artist uses layers and layers of white oil ...
Canvas, Oil
$8,831
H 39.38 in W 39.38 in D 1.58 in
Sirens - 21st Century, Oil Painting, Realism, Animal world
By Augustina Droze
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
“Sirens” tapestry of surrealism and symbolism. It showcases a central human figure intricately adorned with a mosaic of colorful patterns, seamlessly blending into a lush, fantastica...
Canvas, Oil
Maci (Teddy Bear)
By Szabolcs Bozó
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Szabolcs Bozo Title: Maci (Teddy Bear) Medium: Acrylic and Oil on Canvas Size: 19.75 x 15.75 inches (50 x 40 CM) Year: 2021 Notes: Hand Signed, Titled and Dated on Verso. Almine Rech...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
"Purple Carp" Expressionist Nature Scene
By Bartolome Sastre
Located in Austin, TX
"Purple Carp" Artist: Bartolome Sastre Medium: Oil on canvas Canvas Size: 39.5" x 39.5" Frame Size: 46" x 46"
Canvas, Oil
$11,882
H 45.28 in W 43.31 in D 1.58 in
Reindeer Calf - 21 Century Contemporary Painting of an Animal
By Bart Koning
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Bart Koning Reindeer Calf 115 x 110 cm Oil on linen We're proud to introduce Dutch/ German artist Bart Koning. Incredibly clever how the originally Dutch Bart Koning knows how to m...
Oil
$8,000
H 36 in W 36 in
Brooke Major, "Wild Horses", 36x36 Sculptural White Equine Horse Oil Painting
By Brooke Major
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
"Wild Horses", 36x36 is an oil painting on canvas by the artist Brooke Major. Depicted in white is two wild horses mid run. The artist uses layers and layers of white oil paint to me...
Canvas, Oil
$16,000
H 30 in W 30 in
Grief Box, pink figurative painting with bird and butterflies, landscape
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
Like the 2015 String Theory series, the Dream Weavers takes its cue from the African Weaver Birds and their spectacular nest making skills. The Weaver Birds create various iconic for...
Oil, Canvas
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[Hippolyte-Alexandre Michallon (1849-1930)] The Jungle
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas Signed in red, l.r. 48 x 48 inches, canvas size 52 x 52 inches in gold leaf frame This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. “By his own account, the most ambitious work of Michallon’s career was a thirty-foot canvas depicting Noah’s Ark, which he exhibited in the Salon of 1875, where it went unmentioned by the critics. Preparatory work for this elaborate composition took him frequently to the Jardin des Plantes, where he made painstaking drawings and oil sketches of the animals on view. These studies were enthusiastically remarked upon by visitors to his studio, some of whom counseled him to give up history painting altogether and pursue the less dignified but presumably more lucrative career of animal painter. Following this advice, and profiting from the tremendous vogue in 1880s Europe for all things African...
Canvas, Oil
La Chasse aux Cygnes
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
oil on canvas painting by "Hippolyte-Alexandre Michallon" from Bruce Sargeant & His Circle More work by this artist is available on our website. Please inquire within.
Canvas, Oil