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
$75,000
H 20.88 in W 15.38 in
La Dame à la Collerette (Portrait de Jacqueline à la fraise)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in New York, NY
A superb impression of this color linoleum cut. Signed and numbered 29/50 in pencil by Picasso. Printed by Arnéra, Vallauris. Published by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris. Catalogue r...
Color, Linocut
Picasso “Deux Femmes”
By (after) Pablo Picasso
Located in San Francisco, CA
This is a limited edition linocut done in 1962. They were done after signed editions that were done in 1959. I believe they might have been reduced in size from the originals in 1959...
Linocut
$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
Ode to Goya's Maya
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
10.5 x 16 inches - Edition 3 of 7 with 2 APs framing is an additional $265. Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld...
Archival Pigment
$77,740
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
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
$28,000
H 20.25 in W 30.25 in
Kerry James Marshall - Keeping the Culture, silkscreen and linocut, Signed/N
By Kerry James Marshall
Located in New York, NY
Kerry James Marshall Keeping the Culture, 2011 Silkscreen and linocut in colors with full margins and deckled edges on Arches paper with full margins and deckled edges 20-1/4 x 30-1/4 inches Hand signed, titled and numbered 79/100 by Kerry James Marshall in graphite pencil on the front Published by Africa House International, Chicago Unframed In September, 2025, "Kerry James Marshall: The Histories" opened at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. This major exhibition was the largest presentation of Marshall's work in the United Kingdom and Europe, and featured more than 70 works by the the artist, including a large number of paintings and a selection of prints, drawings and sculptures. Highlights of the show include a new series of paintings that explore the transatlantic slave trade, along with Knowledge and Wonder, a mural commissioned in 1995 by the Chicago Public Library that is the largest painting Marshall has produced. The exhibition at the Royal Academy will then travel to the Kunsthaus Zurich and the Musee d'Art Modern in Paris. Kerry James Marshall's 2011 "Keeping the Culture" is based upon the artist's eponymous painting done the year earlier, which is featured in the Royal Academy Exhibition. In 2013, an original painting, upon which this work is based, sold at Christie's auction. Below is the Christie's Lot Essay for that painting: ..." Set in a revolutionary apartment in the cosmos, Kerry James Marshall's Keeping the Culture optimistically anticipates a future that pays homage to the past. Ushering in a new stage of the artist's output, Keeping the Culture shifts focus from the failed utopia of urban renewal and the commemoration of civil rights era heroes in favor of a more technically refined meditation on the preservation of the traditional and spiritual values that shaped a culture. Placed in an ultramodern environment, two siblings marvel at a projection of the earth--in which Marshall has aptly positioned the African continent toward the viewer-while their affectionate parents dance in the foreground. Overlooking the milky way, Marshall's space-age flat is decorated with earthly relics-wooden tribal sculptures...
Mixed Media, Pencil, Linocut, Screen
$2,800
H 30 in W 30 in D 2 in
Faraglioni, Capri, Italy Archival Pigment Print, Unframed, 30 x 30 inches
By Giacomo da Prato
Located in New York City, NY
Giacomo da Prato Faraglioni, Capri, Italy, 2022 30 x 30 inches (75 x 75 cm) edition of 10 Archival Pigment Print Unframed Certificate of Authenticity included Framing available upo...
Archival Pigment
$4,000
H 40 in W 40 in
Rome Details I, Italy Archival Pigment Print, Unframed, 40 x 40 inches
By Giacomo da Prato
Located in New York City, NY
Giacomo da Prato Rome Details I, Italy, 2022 40 x 40 inches (100 x 100 cm) edition of 7 Archival Pigment Print Unframed Certificate of Authenticity included Framing available upon ...
Archival Pigment
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
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
$1,875
H 16 in W 10 in
Adam and Steve, Ode to Hugo van der Goes' The Fall of Man
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 3 of 7, 2 APs framing is an additional $270. Shot in Amsterdam in 2013, background illustrated by Marco Ventura Inspired by van der Goes’ the fall of man, 1470-75 Photogr...
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