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
Nineteen Famous People, Twenty-Two Friends, and Six Nudes
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Handmade portfolio of 47 Polaroid transfer prints with accompanying text by Mark Beard, handwritten in pencil (Edition of 10 + 5 APs) Signed and numbered in pencil 15.75 x 11.75 x ...
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
$1,500
H 22 in W 30 in
Cuban artist original hand signed photo-engraving n6 22x30 in.
Located in Miami, FL
Juan Carlos Alom (Cuba, 1964) 'Tarjetas postales', 2004 photoengraving on paper 22.1 x 30 in. (56 x 76 cm.) Edition of 99 ID: ALO1534-006 Hand-signed ...
Paper, Photogravure, Engraving
$350
H 14.38 in W 20.28 in
Clash - 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...
Paper, Linocut
$3,200Sale Price|46% Off
H 34.646 in W 28.8 in
Fin Dac Layeoja Redux Series Contemporary Street Artist Silkscreen Print
Located in Draper, UT
TITLE: Fin Dac Layeoja Redux Series YEAR: 2021 CLASSIFICATION: Limited edition MEDIUM TYPE Fine Art Silkscreen Print MEDIUM/MATERIALS 10 Colour Screen Print on...
Varnish, Screen
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
$291
H 7.68 in W 5.52 in
Incarnation 4. Young artist, Figurative print Linocut, Black & white, Polish art
By Luiza Kasprzyk
Located in Warsaw, PL
Black and white contemporary figurative linocut by Polish artist Luiza Kasprzyk. Artwork comes from limited edition of 50. Print depicts bodies permeating each other. LUIZA KASPRZY...
Paper, Linocut
Faraglioni, Capri, Italy
Located in New York City, NY
Giacomo da Prato Faraglioni, Capri, Italy, 2022 40 x 40 inches edition of 10 Archival Pigment Print Mounted and Framed Certificate of Authenticity
Archival Pigment
$1,777Sale Price|20% Off
H 47.25 in W 47.25 in D 3.94 in
Dahlia - Large Contemporary Photographic Floral Print from Unique Color Polaroid
By Pia Clodi
Located in Zürich, CH
Part of the BLOOMY VIEW series taken in Bern 2020 in collaboration with Heym Collections, the images gained new life in their ambiguity, which often stimulates the viewer to project ...
Carbon Pigment, Polaroid
$1,775Sale Price|20% Off
H 47.25 in W 47.25 in D 3.94 in
Lilies - 21st Century Photographic Floral Print from Black and White Polaroid
By Pia Clodi
Located in Zürich, CH
Lilies - 21st Century Photographic Floral Print, PolaroidOriginal, Shadow Gapped Frame - Photographic Print on Aluminium Dibond - Edition 10 + 1, with Certificate Lilies is a beauti...
Carbon Pigment, Polaroid
$1,150
H 33 in W 8.25 in D 2 in
Haroshi U.S.A Olympics “Injury” Skateboard Teal Edition Street Art Contemporary
By Haroshi
Located in Draper, UT
Fine Canadian Maple Wood 33 × 8 1/4 × 2 in 83.8 × 21 × 5.1 cm Edition of 500 Teal Edition CATEGORIES: Silkscreen / Pop and Contemporary Pop / Cultural Commentary / Human Figure / Graffiti and Street Art DIMENSIONS: 33 × 8 1/4 × 2 in 83.8 × 21 × 5.1 cm EDITIONS: Limited Edition Of 500 Medium Print On Fine Maple Canadian Wood...
Wood, Maple, Screen
Reggia di Venaria Reale 8, Torino, Italy
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York City, NY
48 x 60 inches - edition of 5 Chromogenic Print – Unframed Signed by the artist - Certificate of Authenticity Free Shipping – Ask us foar custom framing options. As a world-renowned...
Archival Paper, C Print
$1,777Sale Price|20% Off
H 47.25 in W 47.25 in D 3.94 in
Fleur du Mal - Large Contemporary Photographic Print from Unique Color Polaroid
By Pia Clodi
Located in Zürich, CH
A bloomy view - Polaroid Photographic Print Framed by Pia Clodi The blue tones within her work should not be interpreted as coldness, as her works are full of fleeting moments withi...
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Carbon Pigment, Polaroid
Portrait of a White Woman
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
36 x 24 inches - Edition 1 of 3 with 2 APs framing is an additional $525. Shot in 2011 in New Orleans Inspired by Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait of a Black Woman, 1800 Phot...
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