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
$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
'Modern Music' — WPA Modernism, New York City El
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Albert Potter, 'Modern Music' also Twilight Melodies', linocut, c. 1935, from the posthumous edition of 20, printed in 1977, authorized by the artist’s widow. Estate authenticated in...
Linocut
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
Ode to Vermeer's Woman with a Pearl Necklace
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
24 x 19 inches - Edition 1 of 5 with 2 APs framing is an additional $420. Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien)....
Archival Pigment
Biblioteca dei Girolamini, Napoli
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
"What makes his work unique is how he has made interiors look so absolutely vivid, as if they had a secret life of their own that only he knows how to portray. Listri has the extraor...
C Print
I'm so Great
By David Shrigley
Located in London, GB
Linocut on paper 29 x 39 cm Edition 41 of 100 hand-signed and numbered by the artist published by Schafer David Shrigley is known for his distinctive and darkly humorous drawings, ...
Linocut
$4,400
H 48 in W 64 in
SPQR ( Rome ) - monochromatic timeless urban vignette of Italy's Eternal City
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
details of an almost monochromatic and timeless urban vignette in Rome, Italy captured with a large format camera to allow epic scale print sizes with incredible image details SPQR ...
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée, Archival Ink
$30,800
H 34 in W 30 in
Peintre Dessinant et Modèle Nu au Chapeau, Linocut, Signed, Edition of 160
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Naples, Florida
Linocut on Arches wove paper Signed lower right Edition 145/160, apart from an edition of 35 AP Printed by Hidalgo Arnéra, Imprimerie Arnéra, Vallauris ...
Archival Paper, Linocut
$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
$2,200
H 40 in W 35 in
Hallelujah - large format photograph of baroque Italian palazzo fresco ceiling
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
mesmerizing baroque architectural details in a long forgotten Italian palazzo discovered in Mediterranean Sicily, Italy Hallelujah by Frank Schott 40...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Confrontation
By Richard Bosman
Located in New York, NY
Richard Bosman is a painter and printmaker known for his woodcuts depicting turbulent seascapes. He studied at Bryam Shaw School of Painting and Drawing in London, The New York Studi...
Linocut
$475
H 11.5 in W 11.5 in
"Chittering and Chattering III "Folk inspired Linoleum Blue/White Print of Birds
By Lisa Houck
Located in Wellesley, MA
'Chittering and Chattering III' Linoleum Block Print, Edition 10, 11 5/8 x 11 5/8 Inches, is one of a series of 6 related prints in this size in varying shades of blue. Sold ind...
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