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.
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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
$18,000
H 24 in W 19 in
"Guardians" Contemporary Oil Monkey Eyes Post-Cubist Abstract Whimsical Animal
By Hunt Slonem
Located in New York, NY
"Guardians" Contemporary Oil Monkey Eyes Post-Cubist Abstract Whimsical Animal Hunt Slonem (American, b. 1951) "Guardians" 24 x 19 inches Oil on Canvas Signed, dated 1995, titled, and numbered "JEM0668" to verso. A Certificate of Authenticity from Hunt Slonem Studio attached. Unframed Provenance: From a New York City Collection. BIO Hunt Slonem was born in Kittery, Maine in 1951. His fascination with exotica imprinted during his childhood in Hawaii and experience as a foreign exchange student in Managua, Nicaragua. Slonem received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Tulane University of Louisiana and studied painting at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Since 1977, Slonem soloed in over one hundred fifty exhibitions at prestigious galleries. His work is exhibited globally, including in Madras, Quito, Venice, Gustavia, San Juan, Guatemala City, Paris, Amsterdam, Madrid, Stockholm, Oslo, Cologne, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. Over fifty museums internationally include his work in their collections, among them The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York. His work has been shown in thirty-one different museums. Corporate collections include American Telephone and Telegraph, Chase Manhattan Bank, Citibank, Continental Airlines, Goldman Sachs Co., IBM Corporation, Marriot Corporation, Paine Webber, Inc., Port Authority, and Readers Digest Inc. He won the 1991 National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Painting, and McDowell Fellowships in 1986, 1984 and 1983. Since 1973, Slonem has lived and worked in New York City in his legendary loft with his seventy pet birds. The birds are his models. So enmeshed and unique are his aviary, studio, lifestyle and painting, that Slonem has been featured on television a dozen times and in numerous articles. In his 1993 essay, the late Henry Geldzahler describes, "The visual field of Hunt Slonem's paintings is a continuum accented by ovals of varying shape and colors that it turns out are birds." The birds evolved from Slonem's early paintings of saints as well as inspiration from the pioneers of bird imagery in painting, including Fabritsius, Heade and Audubon. Audubon shot one hundred birds...
Canvas, Oil
$6,953
H 31.5 in W 31.5 in D 1.58 in
Decadent - 21st Century, Oil Painting, Realism, Animal world
By Augustina Droze
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Contemporary artist, Augustina Droze, uses animals as symbols to describe her personal lived experiences. Her current body of work explores her life as a foreigner, her gaze upon the...
Canvas, Oil
Horses - Contemporary Oil Painting, Colorful
By Monika Rossa
Located in Warsaw, PL
MONIKA ROSSA studied painting at the University of Arizona, in the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and at the Escuela de Diseno in Barcelona. She practices drawing and easel painting....
Canvas, Oil
"Alice & the Piglet" - Contemporary Surrealist Pop Collage on Wood
By Zoa Ace
Located in Denver, CO
Born in Rockford, Illinois, 1951 Zoa Ace creates figurative oil paintings that explore human relationships through theatrical narratives infused with symbolic animals and whimsical...
Oil, Wood
$600
H 16 in W 16 in D 1 in
Run Bun Run Oil Painting on Cotton Canvas, Contemporary, Framed
By Evy Olsen Halvorsen
Located in Kingston, WA
This is a fanciful image of a child exploring the world and finding delight in the nature around her, surprise and simple pleasures
Cotton Canvas, Oil
$750
H 13 in W 13 in D 1.19 in
Japanese Contemporary Art by Teppei Ikehila - The Blue Sky is Wonderful
By Teppei Ikehila
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Teppei Ikehila is a Japanese artist born in 1978 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. He is graduated from Shimane University in 2001. Since 2000, he has held many p...
Canvas, Oil
"Harvest Dreams" Oil Painting
By Claudia Griesbach-Martucci
Located in Denver, CO
Claudia Griesbach-Martucci's "Harvest Dreams" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a field mouse standing on a small jack o'lantern as ...
Oil
$4,331
H 15.75 in W 15.75 in D 1.58 in
Rosa - 21st Century, Oil Painting, Realism, Animal world
By Augustina Droze
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
The contemporary artist Augustina Droze, uses animals as symbols to describe her personal lived experiences. Her current body of work explores her life as a foreigner, her gaze upon ...
Canvas, Oil
$350
H 5 in W 5 in D 1 in
"Afloat" - Contemporary Frog and Water Lily Oil Painting, 2026
By Terra Novak
Located in Denver, CO
Terra Novak (American, b. 1990) "Afloat," 2026 Oil on wood panel 5 x 5 in (12.7 x 12.7 cm) Unsigned on the front Unframed, but ready to hang. A frog rests to the right of a single ...
Oil, Wood Panel
Bison - Contemporary Oil Painting, Colorful
By Monika Rossa
Located in Warsaw, PL
MONIKA ROSSA studied painting at the University of Arizona, in the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and at the Escuela de Diseno in Barcelona. She practices drawing and easel painting....
Canvas, Oil
$450
H 5 in W 5 in D 1 in
"Spirit of the High Country" - Contemporary Elk Landscape Oil Painting, 2026
By Robin Hextrum
Located in Denver, CO
Robin Hextrum (American, b. 1987) "Spirit of the High Country," 2026 Oil on panel 5 x 5 in (12.7 x 12.7 cm) Unsigned on the front Unframed, but ready to hang. A bull elk stands in ...
Oil, Wood Panel
$750
H 13 in W 13 in D 1.19 in
Japanese Contemporary Art by Teppei Ikehila - Lion is Raising it's Cubs
By Teppei Ikehila
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Teppei Ikehila is a Japanese artist born in 1978 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. He is graduated from Shimane University in 2001. Since 2000, he has held many p...
Canvas, Oil
$4,000
H 18 in W 14 in D 1.5 in
"Buster" by L. A. Spowart - Bright Playful Abstract Animal Dog Painting on Wood
By Lesley Anne Spowart
Located in Carmel, CA
Lesley Anne Spowart (American, born 1957) "Buster" 2023 Acrylic Paint, Oil Paint, Mixed Media, Wood Panel, Wire The artist signed the bottom left and back of the painting. "Buster"...
Wire
$750
H 13 in W 13 in D 1.19 in
Japanese Contemporary Art by Teppei Ikehila - I'm an Otter
By Teppei Ikehila
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Teppei Ikehila is a Japanese artist born in 1978 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. He is graduated from Shimane University in 2001. Since 2000, he has held many p...
Canvas, Oil
$750
H 13 in W 13 in D 1.19 in
Japanese Contemporary Art by Teppei Ikehila - Painting the Water's Surface
By Teppei Ikehila
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Teppei Ikehila is a Japanese artist born in 1978 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. He is graduated from Shimane University in 2001. Since 2000, he has held many p...
Canvas, Oil
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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