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
$165,000
H 25.25 in W 21 in D 0.13 in
Jacqueline au Bandeau de Face (Grand Tête de Femme)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in New York, NY
Stunning and iconic portrait of Picasso's wife, Jacqueline Roque, signed in pencil by Picasso and numbered in pencil from the limited edition of 50.
Linocut
$4,400
H 48 in W 72 in
Napoleon Bonaparte II - interior photograph of elegant French palace villa
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large scale photograph of elegant interior view of the French revolutionary ballroom in the Villa Napoleone in Elba, Tuscany. Napoleon Bonaparte II (2025) by Frank Schott 48 x 72 i...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Soeur III
By Carla Sutera Sardo
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography, thus s...
Photographic Paper
$2,200
H 30 in W 40 in
SPQR (Rome) Urban Vignette, Signed Edition of 25, 30x40 Inches Print
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
details of an almost monochromatic and timeless urban vignette captured in Rome, Italy, photographed with a large format camera to allow epic scale print sizes with incredible image ...
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée
Aqva Big Bubble
By Carla Sutera Sardo
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography, thus s...
Photographic Paper
$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
$3,300
H 50 in W 44 in
Hallelujah - large format photograph of baroque Italian palazzo fresco ceiling
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
mesmerizing baroque details in a long forgotten Mediterranean architecture masterpiece discovered in baroque Sicily, Italy 50 x 44 inches /...
Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Giclée
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
Shining Shining
By Carla Sutera Sardo
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento, Italy in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography,...
Photographic Paper
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
$5,100
H 66 in W 59 in
Hallelujah - large format photograph of baroque Italian palazzo fresco ceiling
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Epic scale photograph of mesmerizing baroque details in a long forgotten architectural masterpiece discovered in Mediterranean Sicily, Italy Hallelujah by Frank Schott 66 x 59 inch...
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, 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