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.
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
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
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
$4,400
H 60 in W 48 in
Standing Ovation - conceptual vignette with red velvet curtain and marble floor
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large scale interior photograph of conceptual vignette with dark red velvet curtain and white Carrara marble floor Standing Ovation (2016) by Frank S...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
$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
$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
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
Ode to Manet's Olympia
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
12 x 16 inches - Edition 2 of 7 with 2 APs framing is an additional $265. Shot in New Orleans in 2011, background illustrated by Marco Ventura Inspired by Manet’s Olympia...
Archival Pigment
Ode to the Pinching D'Estrées Sisters
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
24 x 36 inches - Edition 1 of 3 with 2 APs Additional framing $525. Shot in 2011 in Amsterdam Inspired by an anonymous artist of the Fontainebleau School’s Presumed Portrait of Ga...
Archival Pigment
$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, Hod (glory, splendor) Mother & Baby, Flowers 2023 Hand printed color linocut on cold pressed watercolor paper Hand signed and numbered 12 X 9 inches Basya Wuensch Reiter...
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
$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
Ode to van der Weyden's Portrait of a Lady
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 10.5 inches - Edition 1 of 7 with 2 APs framing is an additional $265. Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien...
Archival Pigment
$246
H 18.51 in W 15.75 in D 1.38 in
Bunker Filing Cabinet, Ho Chi Minh City - Vintage Interior Photograph
By Richard Heeps
Located in Cambridge, GB
Bunker Filing cabinet, vintage interior photograph from Richard Heeps' Vietnam series, This is not America. This artwork is a limited edition of 25, gloss photographic print, dry-mo...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Ode to Aman's Creole with a Red Headdress
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
19 x 11.25 inches - 2Edition 4 of 7 with 2 APs Available framing $265 Shot in 2012 in New Orleans, Louisiana Inspired by Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans’ Creole with a Red...
Archival Pigment
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