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
Surreal Kayak Party in Foggy Metaphysical San Francisco Bay with Muted Skyline
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The weather phenomenon that defines San Francisco, fog, separates a party of Kayakers from the iconic skyline. It puts them into an enigmatic limbo-like state. Photographer Mitchell ...
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2010s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Skid Row Bowery Street Portrait - The Streets of New York - Photojournalism
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk breaks with tradition and shoots street photography in color. Today in 2022, this does not seem like a big deal. But 52 years ago, in 1970, it was q...
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1970s Expressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Late Light Russian Hill, San Francisco
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 Printed later, other size available, unframe Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
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Early 2000s Photorealist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic 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
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...
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1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Golden Light on Solitary Figure in Central Park - Angelic Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Golden rays rim light a single figure sitting on a Central Park Bench. He becomes more of a shape than a specific individual and, as such, blends i...
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1970s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Retro Urban Street Photograph - A Conversation in Blues and Reds
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Two men have a conversation and joke-it-up on the steps of a boarded-up store named Nicks Cleaners. The whole scene is awash in dreamy blues and reds. Absorbing the influence of bot...
Category
1980s American Realist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Art Deco Movie Theater Marquee - Color Field Painting Meet Photography, Abstract
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A marquee for an Art Deco Movie theater in Denton, Texas is photographed with meticulous precision by street photographer Mitchell Funk. Funk's approach...
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1980s Color-Field Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Big Blue Waves Ocean District San Francisco - Visual White Noise
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Can a photograph reduce stress and anxiety? Photographer Mitchell Funk says yes with his high-angle shot that harmoniously unifies sea and land. A pleasing relationship is created ...
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1990s Modern Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Taxi Portrait - Lost in Thought in New York City
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk's signature hi-color/design photography merges with photojournalism in this introspective New York City Taxi Portrait.
Signed, dated, numbered low...
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2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
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
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
East Hampton Sunset , Nature Photography by Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
East Hampton Sunset , Signature: Signed , Dated lower right and numbered verso 4 /15, Unframed, Other sizes available. printed later, Printed on Hahne...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Impressionist Snow Storm - Bethesda Fountain Central Park
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Heavy snow blankets Bethesda Fountain and simplifies the landscape so that only a few sick-figure people dot the blue on the blue-white ground. The one figure with a red coat acts ...
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2010s 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
Blue Duck Fantasy - Fairy Tale World - Post-Impressionist Blue
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Blue Duck Fantasy - Fairy Tale World - Signed dated numbered 2/15 on lower right, other size available, unframed, printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, 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...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Central Park South bursts in Autumn Colors Yellows and Soft Gentle Browns
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Central Park shows us its true colors and they are spectacular. Vermont you have competition. This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, dated ...
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2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
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 Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Dog Walker in Magical Golden Light - Color Hunter Photographer
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The color-hunting eye of veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk transforms drab street scenes into sanctuaries of luminous bright colors. Manhattan's grey canyons receive only fl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Flatiron Building with Dramatic Light - Abstract Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The ephemeral nature of weather is on display in this hyper-dramatic photograph of Manhattan's Flatiron Building. Dark storm clouds crack open for a brief moment and spotlight the w...
Category
2010s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
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...
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, 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...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Plaza Hotel with Yellow Taxis, Blue Sky New York City in Spring
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk makes a statement about two New York icons. The majestic Plaza Hotel proudly rises against a deep cobalt blue sky in the crisp early morning light....
Category
1990s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Red Head Girl in the Bowery - Graffiti Street Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A graffiti street scene in New York City becomes a semi-abstract picture.
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso Edition 3 of 15. Unframed. Other size available, Printe...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
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 ...
Category
1970s Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Pastel Alley, San Francisco
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Local color comes alive and becomes a living work of art in this stunning image. Signed dated and numbered lower right recto. Edition 3 of 15, printed late...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Women With Hat In Bus Window, San Francisco
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Women framed In San Francisco bus window.
This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, dated and numbered 2/15, lower right recto. Other sizes ar...
Category
Early 2000s Post-Modern Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Surreal Desert Landscape with Blue Mountain and Magenta Moon - Monument Valley
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
"Surreal Desert Landscape" is an example of Mitchell Funk's early work. It depicts Monument Valley in an unexpected way. It's 1976 and color photography was not even seriously acknow...
Category
1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Inspiring Spires: Empire State Building in New York City at Gold Sunset
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A parade of New York City spires is on full display in this unique view of Manhattan from Queens. Taken in 1974, its composition and graphic appeal still inspires after 50 years. Sa...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Intoxicated Skid Row Bowery Homeless, Gritty Street Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Enter the Wood Chipper. Before the Bowery was a trendy destination, it was America's most famous Skid Row. Vagrant flophouses, 10-dollar prostitutes, dive bars, and what used to be ...
Category
1960s Realist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Classic Art Deco Marlin Hotel Miami Beach, South Beach, Fine Art Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Puffy clouds over Marlin Hotel on Collins Avenue in South Beach, Miami Beach.
This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, dated and numbered 2/1...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
Jazz Trumpet Player by Mitchell Funk, Soulful Rainbow of Color Magenta Blue
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed dated and numbered lower right recto Edition 2/15 Unframed. Printed later. Other sizes are available. This work is printed on fine art Hahnemuhle paper. The color will vary ...
Category
1980s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Inkjet
Birds in Flight over Manhattan - Minimalist Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Since 1969, Mitchell Funk has been a Minimalist Photographer. His signature style focuses on reducing pictorial elements to their essentials. In this recent image, shot in 2023, he continues the tradition but takes it to a new level. Funk captures a magic moment of a flock of alternating dark and light-colored pigeons in flight. He frames the shot as if it were a painting by Kenneth Noland...
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2010s Minimalist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Nude Christ Like Figure on Infinite Road
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 3/15 Printed later, other size available, unframed . Exhibited, Images Gallery, New York
Category
1970s Expressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Inkjet
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
Materials
Photographic Paper
Aspen Colorado Golden Landscape Luminous Lines of Light and Bicycle
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Golden rays transform power lines into luminous lines of light that stretch across the Aspen landscape. A solitary biker punctuates the scene. Over his 55-year photography career, M...
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1970s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Public Statues. Young Boy and Old Man in New York City Park
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In the 1970s, senior citizens were fixtures on New York City park benches. In this image, golden light conveys the expressive nature of a disparate relationship between an old man an...
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1970s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Old Freemont Street Neon, Las Vegas
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This is the quintessential image of a bygone era. Old Las Vegas is captured with glowing neon signs set against a dramatic desert sunset. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on...
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Art Deco District Miami Beach in the 80's, Pinks and Blues
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Mediterranean Revival style, Bendle Apartments, constructed in 1923, is located at 826 Collins Ave. Miami Beach, Florida, is seen here th...
Category
1980s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Abstract City - Ephemeral Golden Building New York Architecture
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Abstract City - Ephemeral Golden Building New York Architecture
Can a street photograph be a grab shot and precisely designed at the same time? Mitchell Funk says yes. He brings fine...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Empire State Building And American Flags, New York City
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Upward view of American Flags against deep blue sky with Empire State Building in the background.
This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, dat...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
Curvy Nude in Surreal Landscape of Red and Blue - Album Cover
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Surreal Fantasy Album Cover Beck & Sanborn for CTI records.
This image is signed, dated and numbered 3/15 lower right recto. Other sizes are available. The work is unframed and print...
Category
1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Black Boy Broken Glass Brooklyn Museum Color Photography Show by Henri Ghent
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
An early example of a street photography portrait in color and multiple exposures with an image of broken glass . Exhibited: Images en Couleur, Brooklyn Museum, 1970. ( This was firs...
Category
1970s American Realist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Golden and Yellow Foliage in Central Park - Nature Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Nature Photography in the City. Central Park's Autumn foliage is transformed into a delightful abstract pattern where natural organic shapes interact with the architectonic shapes of...
Category
2010s Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Picture of the Unknown - Plein Air Painter's Surreal Dream
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
It's a picture of the unknown. We do not know who the artist is. We do not know what the subject is. We do not know where the location is. It is all left to conjecture, yet the image...
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2010s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The Guggenheim Museum Reaches Out
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Museum in a car - The artsiest of art museums is artfully depicted in street photographer Mitchell Funk's imaginative photograph. A passing red car with similar curvilinear forms has the museum's facade reflected in its roof window...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Mondrian Boogie Woogie Updated By Street Photographer Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Perpendicular lines of white and yellow, rectangles of yellow, and white bands of equal proportion define this overhead Manhattan intersection. As an afterthought, it's a nod to Mo...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Moondog in Infrared Against Black Rock CBS Building, Street People
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Moondog, was a blind American composer and musician. He was a fixture in front of the CBS building Black Rock on 6th Avenue and 5nd street. Photographer Mitchell Funk breaks with tra...
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1970s American Realist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chrysler Building at Night, Magenta Sky on Rainy New York Night - Color Photo
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures the vitality and energy of New York City's classic Art Deco skyscraper, The Chrysler Building. It glows in pink, magenta, and crimson on ...
Category
2010s Art Deco Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Girl in East Hampton Pond
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100 Girl in East Hampton Pond
Signature: Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 4/15, unframed.
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of " Color Photog...
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2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Dog shadow
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
New York City Park with top view, long shadows and bright color. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 1/15, other size available, unframed
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Mitchell Funk Art
Graffiti Wall with Little Green Man - Urban Art Sci- fi
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Against popular belief, there really are little green men populating New York City. Street Photographer Mitchell Funk, isolates an urban art wall painting in the looming above a park with people mulling around. It's a striking composition as with the central figure framed between windows. A small American flag...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The Fremont Sign, Las Vegas, 1974
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This photograph is of old Last Vegas - The Fremont Sign, Las Vegas, 1974
The work is signed, dated number lower right 4/15. It's printed later, unframed and
other sizes are available.
Before one of America's most iconic streets was desecrated into a mall, Fremont street was a wonderland of classic casino signs...
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1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Frenzied Pedestrians at Crosswalk Times Square - Street Photography Literally
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk nabs the frenetic energy of Times Square, where the streets are as over-stuffed as the billboards. They are one and the same and powered by an ele...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chrysler Building Crown, Classic New York City , Architectural Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Precise composition with magical late light is a hallmark of Mithcell Funk's work.
Signed, dated and numbers Edition 2 /15 lower right. Printed later, unframed, other size availab...
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Glowing Gas Station
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A solitary figure pumps gas under an unearthly shroud of alien-like l ight. Signed , dated lower right, Edition 2 /15 Printed later, unframed, other size available, Printed on Hahne...
Category
1970s Color-Field Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, 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.