Mitchell Funk Art
American, b. 1950
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of color photography. In 1970, he participated in one of the first color photography shows at the Brooklyn Museum titled “Images en Couleur." In 1971, he was included in the visionary books Frontiers of Photography and Color (Life Library of Photography), both published by Time-Life. He has done more than 50 photography magazine covers, including covers for Newsweek and Life.
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Artist: Mitchell Funk
Central Park Runner and Flowers
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping is $100. New York City is in bloom as a runner's bright red parker adds punctuation to an impressionist scene of soft pastels and lavenders and blue greys.
Excellent. Sign...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Fashion Models Nude Legs Fifth Avenue Billboard with Pedestrians
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A monumental Fifth Avenue billboard depicting three nude models from the waist down and only wearing shoes soars above passing pedestrians. Street photographer Mitchell Funk compose...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
Epic Orange Sunset over Spiritual Sea with Solitary Boat
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A solitary boat is dwarfed by a colossal setting sun on a spiritual sea. The image suggests that a larger force is out there and that humans are just a part of the grand scheme.
Th...
Category
1970s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
St Patrick's Cathedral in a Golden Celestial Glow in New York City
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A celestial golden glow on St Patrick's Cathedral is sheathed in an equally heavenly sky. The image is not only beautiful but communicates a spirit of the divine as all elements lea...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Vintage Red Ferrari in Florence, Italy - Race Cars, Red Sports Cars
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A cluster of vintage red Ferraris lounge on displayed in a square in Florence, Italy. Street Photographer Mitchell Funk was struck by the unexpected site and documented the scene em...
Category
1990s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
Guggenheim Museum Design Inspires Clouds in New York City
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The surrounding clouds' graphic formation pays tribute to Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum's simplified design of repetitive shapes. In this stunningly original image, Photogr...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink
Divine Intervention: Central Park Ambulance Scene Bathed in Golden Glowing Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Divine Intervention? Magical, almost angelic light envelops an ambulance event in Central Park. The body language of the surrounding crowd and the open ambulance door indicate a seri...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Bethesda Fountain Dancing Waters in Central Park - Monochromatic Color
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Dancing waters flow down from the Bethesda Fountain in Central Park. The water forms an energized abstract pattern in a monochromatic color scheme. Mitchell Funk's use of backlightin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
American Flag on New York City Bus - Moody Street Art Abstraction.
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A large decal of an American Flag is pasted on the interior of a New York City bus. Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures a close-up of the bus as it passes by on the street. Th...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Portrait of Green Eyed Sci-Fi Star Trek Girl in Golden Light in Times Square
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures a green-eyed Sci-Fi Star Trek girl illuminated by intense golden light.
In most portrait photography, the subject collaborates with the ph...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
Golden Light Reflections off a New York City Skyscraper with Moon
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Dramatic golden light reflecting off a New York City skyscraper with the moon communicates more than just a document of a skyline. This image is about the aesthetic power and perhaps...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
New York Skyline from Central Park in Deep Gold and Orange
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Trailblazing Color Photographer Mitchell Funk once again sets the standard for originality and inventiveness. His use of hyper-lighting and composition produces a retina-numbing imag...
Category
2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Fun Bird Party in Miami, Blue Sky Golden Light. Nature Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
An unusually robust gathering of birds is captured in Miami by Photographer Mitchell Funk. We named it Bird Party because they seemed to be having so much hanging out, signing in tu...
Category
2010s Abstract Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Colorful Rainbow with Flock of Birds in East Hampton, Symbolic of Togetherness
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A densely packed flock of birds fly over a beach in East Hampton while a magnificent rainbow serves as a backdrop. The tight formation of the flock of birds symbolizes unity and to...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Beautiful Nature Colorful Duck Swims in a Pond of Blue and Yellow
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A red-billed duck swims in a pond of impressionist yellow and blue colors that please the viewer's optic nerve and soothe one's mood. The image is as abstract as it is representation...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Big Sun Over New York City Bridge - The Transience of Time.
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This dramatic image of an oversized sun with a silhouetted plane gracefully passing through conveys the transience of time. Two spires of the Triborough Bridge are centered in the co...
Category
2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
New York City Skyscraper Super Tall in Angelic Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
New York City Skyscraper Super Tall in Angelic Light
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered 3 of 15. Unframed. Other size available, Printed later - Printed on Hahnemühle Fine...
Category
2010s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
Gathering of Birds on Wires In Miami
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Strong light illuminates an upward view of an exaggerated cluster of gathering birds. The birds' warm golden color in chiaroscuro contrasts with the soft blue tropical Miami sky and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Flock of Birds on Wire Against Dramatic Sky Dramatic Clouds
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
After a 55-year career creating originally powerful images, Photographer Mitchell Funk outdoes himself. Flock of Birds on Wire was shot in the Windwood section of Miami. End-of-the-d...
Category
2010s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
New York City Street Starbursts over Mid-Town Manhattan -Abstract Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Streetlights on Manhattans' Sixth Avenure transform into a starburst of kaleidoscope color through an act of creativity from Photographer Mitchell Funk. The emanating light is a m...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Yellow Moon Over Manhattan in the 1970s
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A recurring motif in Mitchell Funk's work is the inclusion of an oversized moon. It signifies a celestial presence. This work, "Yellow Moon Over Manhattan," is an early example, but ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Color Photography Abstraction of Park Bench in Central Park - Brooklyn Museum
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A simple park bench acts as inspiration for an early example of semi-abstraction in color photography. Pioneering Color Photographer Mitchell Funk waits for "magic hour" light to ill...
Category
1970s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Magenta Sky at Dusk , Serene Sky in Blue and Magenta Running Man and Boats
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A lone figure is captured running against a Magenta Sky at Dusk. He is small in the frame, with the vastness of nature as a backdrop. This image was taken in 1972 and exemplifies Pho...
Category
1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Vietnam War Protests Central Park - Nuclear War, Civil Rights, Agent Orange
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In 1971, Central Park was a hub for Vietnam War Protests. In this work, Mitchell Funk captures a packed protest scene with emphasis on the graphic nature of the banners and flags. Th...
Category
1970s Conceptual Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The Empire State Building Art Deco Skyscraper Silhouetted, New York in the 1970s
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The Empire State Building is vividly portrayed as a stand-alone Art Deco skyscraper in an uncluttered New York City sky. Surrounding it is the emptiness of midtown Manhattan. It allo...
Category
1970s Art Deco Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Red Brick Factory Long Island City with Empire State Building in Manhattan
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk's photograph of a Red Brick Factory in Long Island City is as much about color-field theory as it is a document of a brightly painted factory facade. Additionally, Fun...
Category
1970s Color-Field Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Leafless Tree Monochromatic Winter Snow Scene in Central Park in Warm Greys
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A monochromatic winter snow scene in Central Park with a leafless tress raises questions. How can a city with over 8 million people jammed into a small space yield an expansive, unp...
Category
2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Sexy Male Nude on Endless Road in New Mexico in a Quest for Meaning
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A determined, lone, sexy nude male is about to sprint down an endless road in New Mexico and, in a quest for meaning, meet his destiny. The image exudes a sense of primal instincts...
Category
1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Victorious Nude Man on Naked Road in New Mexico - Gay Interest Surrealism
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Man conquers nature and expresses a victorious gesture to an endless landscape with billowing clouds. A quest for meaning for the individual could be another theme this image.
The ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Statue of Liberty New York Harbor at Sunset with Green Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A vibrant orange sunset silhouettes the iconic Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. In the foreground, a partly out-of-focus green street light occupies the top half of the composi...
Category
1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Post Impressionist New York City Fountain Scene - like Georges Seurat
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Dancing waters emanate from a New York City fountain to fill the sky with thousands of circles of light. Bystanders mingle in the mist as Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures ...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Times Square Cell Phone in Neon Reds - Street Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk uses a Nikon Z8 mirrorless megapixel camera to photograph the screen of a Times Square tourist's cell phone camera. The resulting image is a photogr...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chelsea: Old New York West Side Highway Industrial Trucks In Angelic Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Old New York is captured. Angelic golden light caresses an industrial scene truck at a Chelsea West Side loading dock in 1972. The lighting transforms a gritty and oil-soiled space i...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Twin Towers, World Trade Center Catches the Full Moon
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering Street Photographer Mitchell Funk exploits an upward angle of the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center. At the convergence of the two towers, a full moon appears wedged...
Category
1970s Futurist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Man and Dog in New York City Park Early Morning Light Impressionism
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
From a high angle, we see early morning light skim across the surface of an outdoor basketball court, creating long, dramatic shadows and poetic patterns. In the center of the compos...
Category
2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink
Black Liberation Army Protest in Central Park - Civil Rights - Black Panthers
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A bold Black Liberation Army banner is featured among drummers and hippies in a 1971 Central Park protest. We see a rudimentary Super 8 video camera recording it all in the lower le...
Category
1970s American Modern Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Empire State Building Bathed in Luminous Golden Light, 1970s New York City
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Golden late afternoon light bathes the majestic Empire State Building in luminous color as it pierces a dramatic sky. This image is not only stunning in its visual beauty but also a ...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Gritty Street Photography with Geometric Billboards Manhattan Street Scene
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A moment in gritty street photography is captured where street billboards and a solitary figure strike a perfect grid-like compositional balance.
Signed, dated, and numbered 3/15...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
East Village Bums, Tramps Smoking and Drinking at Blue Green Wall
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Four East Village down-and-out derelicts and apparent friends sit on a step and engage in a lively chat. They are smoking and drinking. Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures the...
Category
1960s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Black Hippie Red Sombrero n' Flute Central Park Music Festival 60's Celebration
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A black hippie enthroned in a majestic red sombrero is captured playing a flute at a Central Park music festival in 1969. This was the same year the youth "counterculture" celebrat...
Category
1960s American Modern Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Golden Mist at the Fountain - Impressionist Girl Relaxing like Georges Seurat
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A girl is shrouded in a golden mist of shimming water droplets emanating from a fountain. This image looks like something post-impressionist Georges Seurat would paint, but in realit...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Cute Black Dog Against a Graphic Yellow Orange Wall in Mexico
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
An observing black dog is captured against a yellow and red Coca-Cola sign in Guaymas, Mexico. Shot in 1970, Mitchell Funk was innovating in color photography, which is what many col...
Category
1970s Color-Field Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Colorful Field of Flowers with Redhead Child - East Hampton Like Monet
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Through Mitchell Funk's lens, a field of colorful flowers in bloom turns into a Monet-like Post-Impressionist painting. A lone redhead child punctuates the composition as she prance...
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
Colorful New York City Facade with Blue, Yellow and Red Squares like Mondrian
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Mondrian came to New York City in the 1940s, and the city's real-world grid-like street design inspired him to create his famous Broadway Boogie-Woogie series, composed of primary co...
Category
1990s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
New York City Hazy Day, Central Park West Towers Cradle Orange Red Sun
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Dense smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketed New York City with a thick, warm grey haze, giving the sky a surreal quality. Sunset enhanced the hazy effect. Photographer Mitchell Fun...
Category
2010s Tonalist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Surreal Brooklyn Bridge with Blue Sky Golden Windows and Red Kite
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Why is this view of the Brooklyn Bridge, a blue sky, and golden windows no longer visible? The image is a creation from Mitchell Funk's mind. It comprises three photographs with colo...
Category
1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Manhattan Rooftop Abstraction - Urban Landscape Color Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A Manhattan rooftop looks as beautiful as an abstract painting filled with lush colors punctuated by a single sitting figure in hyper-light. New York City rooftops are typically dar...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Central Park Ice Skaters at Night Purple Sky in New York City
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A blur of Central Park ice skaters at night fills the foreground of this dreamy image of one of New York City's most iconic spots. The purple sky and bluish ice add to the overall ...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
American Flag with Retro Mid-Century Car - Red and Blue - Street Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
What is more patriotic than a retro mid-century blue and red 70s convertible with an American flag draped from its trunk? Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures the moment with ...
Category
2010s American Realist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
Autumn Colors in New York City as Orange Trees Squeeze into the Skyline
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Autumn colors flourish as late afternoon light illuminates Upper East Side trees, emphasizing their orange and red color. The image is unexpected as a juxtaposition of nature and ma...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Mystical Transcendent Orange Sunset Big Sky
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A spectacular vast orange sunset dominates the sky as tiny onlookers gaze up and out with amazement. The image has a surreal quality to it and the relationship to the sky and people...
Category
2010s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
New York Stock Exchange with American Flag - American Capitalism
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The symbol of American Capitalism is cloaked in the symbol of American Freedom. A monumental American Flag drapes the shiny facade of the New York Stock Exchange. Bright light illu...
Category
2010s American Modern Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
New York City Street Art: Literally - Hot Pink Umbrella - Like Rothko
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
New York City is renowned as a center of world-class Museums and tastemaker Art Galleries. However, some of the greatest art is street art mad...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Street Photography in New York - People Minimized to Colorful Abstract Shapes
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
New York City pedestrians form a graphic pattern integrating with a colorful green construction wall and an orange day-glow concrete traffic barrier.
Three orange day-glow stripes e...
Category
2010s Abstract Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Black Woman with Flamboyant Hair at Cafe
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A black woman with outrageous long blond braids is captured in a cafe. She is seen through a window, and the nature of her hair integrates with the surrounding color structure.
Si...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Hot Pink Hot Car in Times Square - Automotive
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In the visual madness of Times Square, a beacon of futuristic design and color in the form of a hot pink Corvette stops before a light. The uncanny ima...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Vintage Las Vegas Motel Sign - Mid Century Sky Ranch Motel
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A perfect day with penetrating light and a deep cobalt-blue sky was the ideal context for Mitchell Funk to photograph the punchy primary colors of a mid-century Las Vegas hotel sign....
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
Urban Art Street Art, Graffiti Wall In Soho, New York City, Abstract Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Graffiti wall in Soho district in Manhattan was photographed in 2007 that's more than a decade before the Urban Art craze had seized the attention of the art world. Art photographer...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Mitchell Funk art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Mitchell Funk art available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of art to introduce a pop of color in a neutral corner of your living room or bedroom, you can find work that includes elements of blue, purple, orange and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Mitchell Funk in paper, archival paper, pigment print and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 21st century and contemporary and is mostly associated with the abstract style. Not every interior allows for large Mitchell Funk art, so small editions measuring 20 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Bill Jacobson, Carol Inez Charney, and Oz Van Rosen. Mitchell Funk art prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $3,000 and tops out at $185,000, while the average work can sell for $5,500.