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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
Unseen New York. Manhattan sky line in pinks, golds and blues
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Unseen New York conjured up images of secret hideaways, architectural details, or some undiscovered treasure. Mitchell Funk gives a new twist to the term "unseen". His subject matt...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Art

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Umbrellas, Rainy New York
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 4/15, other size available, unframed
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2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art

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Photographic Paper

Magical light on road. Litchfield, Connecticut
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. As if it were illuminated from an unearthly source, a Ford Falcon glows as it cruises down a country road. Mitchell Funk pioneered the use of late, dr...
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1960s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art

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Photographic Paper

Big Red Shoe On Fremont Street In Downtown Las Vegas
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Abstract image of large red high heel shoe in downtown Las Vegas Nevada. Shipping should be around $100. This archival color photograph by fine art phot...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Art

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet

New York City, Lower Manhattan Blue Skyline with Boats
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto 5/15, unframed, other sizes available, printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper Mitchell Funk is a "Color Photographer Pionee...
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2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art

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Photographic Paper, Inkjet

Ocean Drive South Beach
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, unframed. Other sizes available, printed later, other sizes available
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Early 2000s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art

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Photographic Paper

Colorful People Central Park Snow
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 Printed later, other size available, unframed
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2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art

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Photographic Paper

New York Skyline, Hotel Dixie
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In the early in1970's Mitchell Funk was one of the very few photo innovators who used extreme late afternoon golden light. In "Hotel Dixie, 1975, the intense light not only illumin...
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1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art

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Photographic Paper

Silhouetted Figures on New York Street
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
500mm lens and high angle transforms pedestrians into a Rorschach test of abstract and intertwined black shapes . Signed and dated on lower right, num...
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2010s Abstract Mitchell Funk Art

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Photographic Paper

Psychedelic Hippie Guitar Player Groovy Washington Square Park
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. In-Camera Multiple Exposure with colored filters and emulsion match burn on 35mm slide Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto. Edition 4 of 15, ...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Mitchell Funk Art

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Photographic Paper, Inkjet

Eiffel Tower with flocks of people
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The arching shape of a 20mm lens reflected in the grand arches of the Eiffel Tower. Flocks of meandering tourists give a sense of scale Grandiose wrought iron tower...
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Early 2000s American Modern Mitchell Funk Art

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Photographic Paper

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...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art

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Photographic Paper

Park Avenue in the Rain
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A magical Manhattan moment is captured with divergent light sources and supernatural color. A singular figure, front and center walks among the colorful cars. Chromogenic archiva...
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American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art

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Photographic Paper

Empire State Building Magenta Architecture Manhattan Skyline, Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Two New York City architectural icons juxtaposed with each other in a magenta sky. The Empire State Building and the Twin Towers shot before a Manhattan building boom gives a clear ...
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1990s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art

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Photographic Paper

San Francisco Gold Rush
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. golden light explodes Signed dated and numbered on the lower right, 2/15 other size available, unframed
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2010s Mitchell Funk Art

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Photographic Paper

Golden Reflections off Manhattan Skyscrapers
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto 3/15, Unframed, other sizes available, printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper Mitchell Funk is a "Color Photographer Pioneer...
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2010s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Art

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Photographic Paper, Inkjet

Statue of Liberty and Ferry in Morning Mist
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, unframed. Other sizes available, printed later, other sizes available
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1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art

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Photographic Paper

Central Park Heroic Statue
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 , other size available, unframed
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Academic Mitchell Funk Art

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Photographic Paper

New York Skyscraper in Golden Burst of Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Architecture becomes spiritual. Late afternoon golden light bounces back at the viewer and transforms a building into something more than a building. Signature: Signed and dated on ...
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2010s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art

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Photographic Paper

Central Park in Negative Color
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk is a very early pioneer of color photography. In this striking image, he is using negative color to give an simultaneous beautiful yet eerie effect . Remarkably, Centra...
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Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art

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Photographic Paper

Sabrett Hot Dog Vendors, Times Square, Golden Light, Street Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A pushcart street vendor selling hot dogs is somehow transformed into something bigger. Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures the scene in extreme golden light. As a result, ...
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Early 2000s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art

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Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Manhattanhenge 2021 with Mystical Object - Street Photography by Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Late afternoon light from Manhattanhenge skims across the asphalt of East 72nd Street. The circular shape of a manhole cover in the foreground echos the ...
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2010s Modern Mitchell Funk Art

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Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink

United Nations and Manhattan Skyline wrapped in Divine Light with Jet Ski
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
United Nations wrapped in Divine Light while a man on a Jet Ski passes glides in front on the East River Bright golden light rushes down 42nd street and cloak...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art

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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper

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...
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1960s American Modern Mitchell Funk Art

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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...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

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...
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1970s American Modern Mitchell Funk Art

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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...
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2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art

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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 ...
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1970s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art

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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...
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1970s Color-Field Mitchell Funk Art

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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...
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1990s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art

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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...
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1990s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Art

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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...
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2010s Tonalist Mitchell Funk Art

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Archival Ink, Archival Pigment, Archival Paper

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...
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1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Art

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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 ...
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2010s American Realist Mitchell Funk Art

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Archival Ink, Archival Pigment, Archival Paper

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 ...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art

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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. New York City rooftops are typically dark and unattract...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

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...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art

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Archival Paper, Archival Ink, 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...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Mitchell Funk Art

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Archival Ink, Acrylic, 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...
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2010s American Modern Mitchell Funk Art

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, 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...
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2010s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Art

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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...
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2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art

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Archival Ink, 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...
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2010s Abstract Mitchell Funk Art

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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...
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2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art

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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....
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Early 2000s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art

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Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink

Angel to the Rescue. Near Death Drug Overdose - Lower East Side
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A disheveled young man lies passed out on Ludlow Street in New York City's Lower East Side. As if he was invisible, herds of pedestrians shuffle by. An angel benevolently comes to hi...
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2010s American Realist Mitchell Funk Art

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Las Vegas Gambling Dice - Primary Colors
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A boldly composed Las Vegas casino sign consisting of a three-dimensional red die rests on a King of Clubs. The very graphic sign is captured in an equally bold way by street photog...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Art

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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...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Mitchell Funk Art

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Futuristic Vision: Sci Fi Outer Space Cosmos Celestial Abstraction
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Decades before Photoshop and digital photography enabled the user to manipulate a photograph easily - Mitchell Funk created some of the most original, mind-bending, and technically brilliant images in analog. This work, "Futuristic Vision: Sci-Fi Outer Space," is a composite of two inverted Transamerica Buildings on a 35mm piece of film. It was done in 1978, and that is six years after the completion of the futuristic Transamerica Pyramid Building...
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1970s Futurist Mitchell Funk Art

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

New York City Snowstorm Abstraction Toddler in Red Snow Suit - Monochromatic
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A New York City snowstorm changes the superficial look of the city and, for photographers, yields creative possibilities. Veteran Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures a toddler...
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Street Walkers - New York Street Photography Abstraction
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The history of street photography has been characterized by a loose snapshot style where the central purpose was to capture random moments as they unfold in time. Little emphasis was...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Art

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Joyful San Francisco Victorian in Purple with Rainbow like Gay Flag
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A prismatic rainbow symbolic of the Gay Flag crowns a pair of purple San Francisco Victorians, adding color and meaning. The whole image exudes a sense of joy...
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2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art

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Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment

Dancing Waters: The Fountain in Washington Square Park - Monochromatic
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Blurry figures are vaguely seen through the dancing waters of the Washington Square Fountain in New York. Raking light strikes the water streams, which results in dots and dashes of...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

New York City Street Photography - Ephemeral Car Reflections
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
On a busy Manhattan street, unnatural light reflects off of windshields and forms a mind-bending abstraction of colors and shapes. In the background, four male mannequins stare at th...
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2010s Abstract Mitchell Funk Art

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

American Flag Swaying from a New York City Building With Graffiti Wall Art
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Art imitates life. A five-story wall painting of a verdant tree seamlessly blends in with a similar tree in the foreground, creating a double take. To the immediate right, direction...
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2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art

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Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment

The Bridges of New York City at Sunset Vibrant Orange
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A unique vantage point, a vibrant sunset, and bleeding colors give this view of New York's Whitestone and Throgs neck Bridges a dreamy quality. This archival color photograph by ...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Adobe Mission Church in Taos New Mexico
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
San Francisco de Assisi Mission Church in Taos was photographed in 1973 by Mitchell Funk. The image is characterized by radical cropping and a simplification of elements and is set ...
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1970s Mitchell Funk Art

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Bikini Window Abstraction Times Square - Urban Street Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Extreme late light darts down a street in Times Square. It illuminates a colorful and semi-abstract window display. A single female figure at the extreme right of the compostion sh...
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2010s Abstract Mitchell Funk Art

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Archival Ink, Archival Pigment, Archival Paper

Manhattan in Snow Storm - Golden Abstraction
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk grabs a taxi moment in front of Grand Central Station. The image communicates the spirit of wintery New York, with skies filled with falling snow. I...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Mitchell Funk Art

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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.

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