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
Nude man on Endless Surreal Road
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shot on location Near Taos, New Mexico, 4 of an edition of 15, Signed, dated and number lower right recto, Other sizes available unframed, printed later. Printed on Hahnemühle ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
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...
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1970s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Sydney Opera House, Modern Photography Cover , Abstract Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Modern Photography Cover, February, 1987 Triple exposure of silhouetted men on a hill, against plexiglass colored shapes echoing the bold iconic architectural curves of the opera h...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Urban Melancholy Blue. Motionless Young Man, Graffiti Wall in Soho
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
An urban youth shrouds his head in a blue sweater as he coils up against a blue Soho wall marked with Graffiti. Reminiscent of Picasso's Blue Period, the photograph is characteriz...
Category
2010s Street Art 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...
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1970s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Multiple Exposure of Colorful Flowers St. Patrick's Cathedral
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
It's 1971, and most photographers were shooting in black and white. Fine Art Photography was not yet in the mainstream vocabulary of museums — almost no art galleries considered or ...
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1970s Abstract 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...
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1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Red Porsche
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell extracts color from a seemingly boring landscape. Eye-popping saturated primary colors, and an unexpected camera angle defines his visual style and springboards him into a c...
Category
1970s Color-Field Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic Film
Yellow Girl in Blue Bars
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk brings the compositional precision of studio photography to street photography.
Yellow Girl in Blue Bars is a grab shot. The result is a vibrant interplay of primary colors. Blue bars and blue jeans merge with yellow hair and yellow shoes...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
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
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Crushed Coke Can Street Asphalt - Real Life Street Art
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk's color photograph of "Crushed Coke Can on Street Asphalt" documents street art created by a pedestrian. Funk transforms it into a graphic and ...
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2010s American Realist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Urban Graffiti Art Wall Painting American Flag Onlooker, New York Street Art
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Urban Graffiti Art Wall Painting photograph on New York Street has an onlooker who looks like the art he's looking at. The image is a synthesis of art and viewer. The yellow abstract pattern on the viewer's shirt echos the yellow patterns on the buildings. The photograph celebrates the Graffiti Artists of New York. Late golden light enhances all-over abstract patterns and integrates the old architecture with the new street art...
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2010s Street Art Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Inkjet, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
New York City Snow Abstract Architecture, Monochromatic
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A New York City snowstorm allows Street Photographer Mitchell Funk to transform facades of Upper Eastside walkups into a stunning impressionist cityscape. Monochromatic grays are pun...
Category
2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Vintage Las Vegas- Fremont Street Neon Signs, The Mint, Old Las Vegas
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The neon signs of Fremont Street's casinos are more than just documented by photographer Mitchell Funk. They are carefully composed as if it were a studio still life with each elemen...
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
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...
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1970s Art Deco Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Burlesque Show Place Pigalle, Miami Beach
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Burlesque Show in Miami Beach facade with vintage car, Kathy King, Cindy Ember headline at the Exciting International Revue, Collins Avenue, Miami, 1974. This was what a strip club...
Category
1970s Pop Art Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, 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
Whimsical Woman with Colorfully Fanciful Outfit Blue Eyeglasses
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures a frontal portrait of an older woman with an inventively outrageous look. Piercing blue circular eyeglasses and a handmade pointy hat remin...
Category
2010s Contemporary 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 Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Graffiti City. New York, Street Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The work is signed and dated and numbered on the lower right, Edition: 3/15 Unframed, Other sizes available. Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Category
2010s Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Debutantes in Formal Black Evening Dress with Tiara in Times Square
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
An everyday street scene yields an unexpectedly delightful moment. Charming young Debutantes crowned with tiaras lift their elaborate formal dresses off the asphalt as they cross a ...
Category
2010s American Realist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
East Hampton Louse Point at Sunset with Warm Colors, Landscape Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The stunning natural beauty of East Hampton's Louse Point is artistically recorded by photographer Mitchell Funk in a chorus of golden browns and warm ochers.
The picture is ar...
Category
1990s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Portrait of a San Francisco Cable Car Soaked in Bronze Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In an unexpected bronze light, Mitchell Funk captures a classic view of San Francisco with a portrait of a famed cable car. The reflection of light in the car's left window gives the...
Category
1990s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Nude man on Endless Surreal Arizona Road to Infinity
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shot on location Near Taos, New Mexico, 4 of an edition of 15, Signed, dated and number lower right recto, Other sizes available, unframed, printed later. Printed on Hahnemüh...
Category
1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Inkjet
Ocean Drive Miami Beach Hotels South Beach, Color Photography, Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Quintessential South Beach's Ocean Drive image where neon lights of the street merge with nature's lights in the sky.
The resulting image of moody magentas and radiant blues is an ...
Category
2010s Street Art Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
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
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
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
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 Hampton Beach - Glistening Light and Cumulus Clouds
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered , 2/15 Printed later, other size available, unframed. printed later Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of " Co...
Category
2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Chrysler Building Art Deco in Minimalist Composition, Architecture
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
As with most of Mitchell Funk's street photography, his images are the opposite of sloppy shoot and grab. He brings the compositional exactitude of studio photography outdoors. In "Chrysler Building...
Category
2010s Art Deco 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
The Jazz Building In North Beach, San Francisco
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street scene and architecture in the North Beach district of San Francisco.
This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, dated and numbered 2/15, ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, 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...
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1970s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Romantic Bethesda Fountain with Angel of the Waters Bronze Statue Colorful Water
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A long lens isolates three nude chubby child figures from the Angel of the Waters Bronze Statue in Central Park. They are juxtaposed with three modern-day figures in a rowboat. The...
Category
2010s Romantic Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Central Park Mall with Yellow Autumn Leaves Elm Trees Post-Impressionist
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Central Park Mall is captured at dawn without human presence. Magnificent elm trees line the famous New York City walkway. The glow of Nineteen Century stre...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Flatiron Building New York's First Skyscraper in Heroic Depiction, Architecture
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The Flatiron is New York's Architectural masterpiece and is depicted in this dramatic photograph as a towering presence as it's rendered in hard light against a surreal sky. Signed ...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Floating Runner Glides Above Dumbo Cobblestone in Angelic Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
They say that Photography captures the truth. That couldn't be more true than in this photograph, "Runner in Angelic Light". It captures both the physical truth and also the spiritu...
Category
1970s Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Soho - Houston Street with Early Color Field Street Art
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Illuminated in rim lighting, a lone man sits crouched in front of an early example of street art. A giant abstract painting raises seven stor...
Category
1970s American Realist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Mickey's Bar. Chelsea, Tribeca, Old New York
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, dated lower and numbered 2/15 lower right recto, unframed, printed later, other sizes available. Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Description: Quintessential image of ...
Category
1970s Modern Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Inkjet
New Yorkers Crossing the Street in Silhouette High Contrast, Street Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Figures silhouetted by extreme lighting yield a dramatic and powerful view of New York City life. This is a stunning example of Mitchell Funk blending the abstract with the represen...
Category
2010s American Realist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Empire State building Multiple Exposure Zoom
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Six in-camera exposures with yellow, green and red filters on a single frame of Kodacrome while moving the position of the camera and zooming yields a striking semi-abstract color i...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Inkjet
Peacock Displaying Blue and Green Plumage
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Sometimes the simplest images are the most complex. Peacock Displaying Blue and Green Plumage is more than a bird portrait. It's a portrait of a bird as a living work of abstract ar...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Inkjet
Old Las Vegas Dunes Hotel Neon
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk was a trailblazer in shooting neon signs with dramatic angles, acute compostion and powerful color. Although this is a nocturnal image it has vibrant life energy. ...
Category
1980s Expressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Inkjet
New York City, 1970 - Multiple Exposure by Mitchell Funk - Abstract Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This image is 52 years old and yet still looks cutting-edge beautiful. New York City, 1971 is an image generationsahead of its time. Not just for its creative graphic use of color a...
Category
1960s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Horses in the Rain, East Hampton - Neutral palette
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, dated and numbered lower right, Edition 2 /15 unframed, other size available, printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of " Color P...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic Film
Golden Road with Motorcycle and Bicycle,
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
Visual relationships abound in this photo. The ...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Golden Gate Bridge at Sunrise , Misty Light in Blue
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Soft misty light pours into the scene evoking a poetic expression of a lyrical landscape. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 Printed later, other size availabl...
Category
2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Sheep Meadow in Central Park with Billionaires' Row Buildings
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This luminous photograph is of the Sheep Meadow which is a vast 15-acre verdant field in Central Park. It's enjoyed by sunbathers, frisbee throwers and fun-seekers who physically g...
Category
2010s American Modern Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Inkjet, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Neon Signs Broadway Theater District in Dramatic Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Golden light skims off the facades on West 44th Street as Neon Lights create a second light source that beckons. Two of Broadway's most famous mainstays, Sardis Restaurant and The S...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
White Roses, Red Roses, Butterflies, Flowers
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, dated, numbered 4/15, lower right, unframed, other sizes available, printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
'Mitchell Funk brings the compositional precision of...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
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 ...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Double-take. Street Photography with Eerie Blue Eyed Billboard
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A photograph of a photograph can be as real as reality. Illusion and reality on the streets of New York are on display in this double-take street photograph by Mitchell Funk. The f...
Category
2010s American Realist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
New York City at Sunset from New Jersey - Manhattan Skyline with Blue Sky
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, dated, numbered 3/15 lr recto, unframed, other size available, printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Manhattanhenge, Big Sun Sunset Manhattan Street Golden Light Silhouetted People
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, dated lower and numbered 2/15 lower right recto, unframed, other sizes available.
Manhattanhenge. Unique moment where the sun aligns with the east to west grid structure of t...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Inkjet
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.