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
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 48 in W 75 in
LA Parking - large scale photograph of midcentury urban architectural element
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
LA Parking by Frank Schott a burst of red in an urban landscape of striking minimalism from a series of photographs capturing the mid century modern architecture and architectural el...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
$875
H 20 in W 30 in D 0.5 in
Metal Print, Contemporary Color Photography, 20x30 Inch, "Book Beauty 5"
By Rebecca Skinner
Located in Franklin, MA
Rebecca Skinner’s “Book Beauty 5” is a 20 x 30 inch metal print of plant life growing on books left to decay in a deserted school. The color photograph with hues of green and blue is...
Metal
Pheasant Circle
By Rob Barnes
Located in Deddington, GB
Pheasant Circle by Rob Barnes [2022] limited_edition Linocut Edition number 50 Image size: H:33 cm x W:44 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:49 cm x W:61 cm x D:0.2cm Sold Unframe...
Paper, 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
$400
H 11 in W 9 in
framed linocut El tiempo...llega (Time...Comes), by Artemio Rodriquez
By Artemio Rodriguez
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed and numbered by the artist Artist's Mark: The red circular chop mark is from La Mano Press Posada y su hijo is a richly detailed linocut that pays homage to the legendary Mex...
Linocut
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
$3,800
H 48 in W 72 in D 0.03 in
Pantheon (Rome) - large scale photograph of iconic architectural elements
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Pantheon (Rome) by Frank Schott from a series of monochromatic and timeless photographic observances of iconic architectural and interior references around Rome's historical center ...
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
$2,100
H 35.25 in W 23.25 in
'Dipping and Diving' Folk inspired linoleum block print of ducks in blue/white
By Lisa Houck
Located in Wellesley, MA
'Dipping and Diving' Linoleum Block Print, Edition 10, 35 1/4 x 23 1/4 Inches, is one of a series of 8 related prints in this size in varying shades of blue. Sold individually or...
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
$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
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
$2,000
H 27 in W 40 in
Pantheon ( Rome ) - large scale photograph of iconic architectural elements
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Pantheon (Rome) by Frank Schott from a series of monochromatic and timeless photographic observances of iconic architectural and interior references around Rome's historical center ...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée
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