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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Untitled No. 51
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Polaroid transfer on Rives BFK paper Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil, recto Also blindstamped, l.r. 22 x 15 inches, sheet 10 x 8 inches, image This artwork is offered by Clam...
Photogravure
Column & Socle
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Column & Socle 2001 Signed, dated, and inscribed “AP” in pencil, recto Polaroid transfer on Rives BFK paper 22 x 15 inches, sheet 7.5 x 9.5 inches, image This work is offered by ...
Polaroid
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
Light Up I!
By Carla Sutera Sardo
Located in New York, NY
PACKAGING: 30x40" and 40x60" prints are shipped in a special fortified tube to guard against bending or damage. Framed 30x40" prints are shipped via FedEx in a bespoke cardboard box ...
Photographic Paper
Femme Couchée et Homme au Grand Chapeau
By Pablo Picasso
Located in New York, NY
Color linoleum cut, 1959. Signed by Picasso and numbered 37/50 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Arnéra, Vallauris. Published by Galerie Louise L...
Color, Linocut
$59,000
H 15 in W 18 in D 1 in
"Winch" British Linocut Grosvenor School Machine Age 1930 Woman Artist Print
By Sybil Andrews
Located in New York, NY
"Winch" British Linocut Grosvenor School Machine Age 1930 Woman Artist Print "The Winch" 1930. 7 3/4 x 11 (sight) inches. Linocut in colors on tissue...
Linocut
By the Sea
By Carla Sutera Sardo
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography, thus s...
Photographic Paper
$4,000
H 40 in W 40 in
Rome Details III, Italy Archival Pigment Print, Unframed, 40 x 40 inches
By Giacomo da Prato
Located in New York City, NY
Giacomo da Prato Rome Details III, Italy, 2022 40 x 40 inches (100 x 100 cm) edition of 5 Archival Pigment Print Unframed Certificate of Authenticity included Framing available upo...
Archival Pigment
$120,000Sale Price|20% Off
H 29.5 in W 24.5 in
Jacqueline Au Chapeau Noir (Jacqueline in Black Hat)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Another example of this work sold at Sotheby's London a on September 6, 2025 for 190,500 GBP, or $254,804 (Lot 19) Pablo Picasso Jacqueline Au Chapeau Noir (Jacqueline in Black Hat)...
Paper, Color, Linocut
$62,192Sale Price|20% Off
H 28.5 in W 30.75 in
Picador Entrant Dans L’Arène, 23/50, circa 1959 — Pablo Picasso, Linocut
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Picador Entrant Dans L’Arene, circa 1959, by Pablo Picasso. Linocut in colors on Arches paper, edition 23/50. Literature: Bloch 942; Baer 1221. Image size: 6.5 × 8.75 inches. Paper s...
Archival Paper, Linocut
$342
H 17.33 in W 18.9 in
Action - Young artist, Figurative print, Linocut, Black & white
By Luiza Kasprzyk
Located in Warsaw, PL
LUIZA KASPRZYK Studies at the Faculty of Graphics and Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, in atelier of Lithographic Techniques of professor W. Warzywoda.
Paper, Linocut
Shining Shining
By Carla Sutera Sardo
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento, Italy in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography,...
Photographic Paper
Aqva Pink Flower
By Carla Sutera Sardo
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography, thus s...
Photographic Paper
Poppy Field
By Carla Sutera Sardo
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography, thus s...
Photographic Paper
Aqva Big Bubble
By Carla Sutera Sardo
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography, thus s...
Photographic Paper
$308
H 4.73 in W 5.91 in
Ophelia - XXI century, Black and white print, Figurative, Shakespeare
By Franciszek Bunsch
Located in Warsaw, PL
Black and white contemporary figurative linocut print by Polish artist Franciszek Bunsch. Artwork is titled 'Ophelia' and it may refer to mythology or Shakespear's 'Hamlet'. Print is...
Paper, Linocut
Light Up Gold
By Carla Sutera Sardo
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography, thus s...
Photographic Paper
Heinrich Glintenkamp, Pottery Shop, Mexico
By Heinrich Glintenkamp
Located in New York, NY
Heinrich Glintenkamp was American painter, printmaker, and illustrator. His work was featured in "The Masses" and in the the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Pennsylvania Academy of th...
Linocut
Aiden
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Aiden 1992 Signed and numbered in pencil Handmade book with frontispiece etching and 26 hand-colored and re-touched Polaroid transfer photographs, printed by Craig Fry with Mark Be...
Paper, Photographic Paper
John Kelly
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Polaroid transfer on Rives BFK paper Signed, titled, dated, and numbered in pencil, recto Also blindstamped, l.r. 11 x 7.5 inches, sheet size This artwork is offered by ClampArt, ...
Photogravure
Despot Atelier
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Polaroid transfer on Rives BFK paper Signed, titled, dated, and inscribed "AP" in pencil, recto Also blindstamped, l.r. 22 x 15 inches, sheet size 10 x 8 inches, image size This a...
Photogravure