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
East Hampton Fences Green Pastures
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
East Hampton Fences. Fields being farmed are interpreted as a color field painting by Mitchell Funk.
Signature: signed and dated lower right, ...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Art
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Photographic Paper
Times Square in the Rain
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso Edition of 3/15, Unframed. Other size available
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21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
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Photographic Paper
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...
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2010s 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
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
French Poodle Central Park - Dog in Golden Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
:ate golden light transforms a dog into a graphic black shape that seems to float in magical landscape. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 3/15 Printed later, other...
Category
1990s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, 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
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Dog Walker. Bulldog, Yorkshire Terrier, Labrador
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A captured moment of a dog walker with five dogs set against a post-impressionist background of warm oranges and cool blues .
Signed, Dated, number 3/15 Lower left recto, unframed...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
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Photographic Paper
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
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Bowery Street Scene with Abstract Graffiti
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A 19th-century red fire call box is smothered in street advertisements and graffiti. It dominates the left half of the composition. Behind i, a street-l...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist 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...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Staten Island Ferry in Magenta New York Harbor by Mitchell Funk, Color Field
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
New York Photographer Mithcell Funk creates an image with a broad expanse of mostly flat magenta. His representation of space is flat and simplified. In the center of the picture pla...
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1970s Color-Field Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Vagabond Vagrant - Life on the Fringe in the Bowery - The Streets of New York
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 1969, it was qu...
Category
1960s Modern Mitchell Funk Art
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Las Vegas Shopping Center Bonanza by Mitchell Funk Street Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mithcell Funk embraces his long-held graphic aesthetic highly keyed bold colors and strong design, while late afternoon light skims across the surface of an empt...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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
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
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
Deck Chair Casual Abstraction with Raking Light and Shadows
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Deck chairs randomly positioned on an Upper East Side balcony are captured by Photographer Mitchell Funk. Raking light produces abstract long shadows giving the overall arrangement of elements a casual abstract look. In the center of the composition is a yellow and green chair with colors...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chrysler Building Spire with Moon - Art Deco skyscraper
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering Color Photographer Mitchell Funk carefully crafts a composition where the graceful Art Deco shapes of the Chrysler Building spire play off t...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric 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...
Category
1980s Color-Field Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Mid Century Bar and Grill Neon Sign - Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Vestiges of a bygone era, a funky old original neon sign acts as a beacon to the thirsty. Chromogenic archival print. Signed and dated on lower r...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, 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
Urban Sunbather, New York City - Smaller Print Size
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Elevated view of women sunbathing on basketball court in New York City with unexpected color relationships.
The actual color will vary from monitor to monitor.
The work is Signed dat...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Painted Ladies Victorian Architecture, Alamo Square San Francisco
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Famous Photographer Mitchell Funk captures a colorful image of the classic scene of San Francisco's colorful Victorian Architecture. This is no...
Category
2010s American Realist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Billionaires Row - New York Skyline from Central Park
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A familiar scene to all New Yorkers and millions of tourists is pictured in a way that none see with their own eyes in person. This luminous image of the Billionaires Row skyline is ...
Category
2010s Romantic Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Snowstorm in Central Park by Mitchell Funk Winter Scene Monochomatic
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A dot of red in a sea of white captured by veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk. The sub-text of this image is that in one of the world's most crowded places a person can be su...
Category
2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
California Street On Rainy Day, San Francisco In Blue Tones
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
People with umbrellas crossing California Street on rainy day with cable car In the background.
Signed dated and numbered 2/15 lower right recto, oth...
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, 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
Duck, Turtles and Gold Fish in Central Park Pond Basking in Sun
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A gathering of different animal species has one thing in common: The sun. Photographer Mitchell Funk captures a congregation of Central Park residents basking in the warm light of s...
Category
2010s Post-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
Miami Demolition
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. New building rises as old building falls and a new Miami is created. Shot on Brickell Avenue.
Signed, dated and numbered 3/15 lower left recto , unf...
Category
1990s American Modern Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Dream Landscape - Woman Strolls in Fantasy Forest of Blue Green
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Questions about the nature and boundaries of reality are contextualized in this dreamy image of a woman strolling in a fantasy forest that breathes high-pitched color. Pioneering pho...
Category
1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
$4,800 Sale Price
20% Off
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
Red Car Back Toronto
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 Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
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
Prism Pigeon Perched on Promenade - Moody Bronze Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A sparking plumaged pigeon is perched on a railing in the Carl Schurz Park promenade. Street Photographer Mitchell captured him while a young woman sits on a park beach...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, 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
Pegasus Mythical Winged Divine Horse Vintage Sign. Mid Century Street Signs
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Red and white gas station signs and parking signs form an abstract pattern in an early example of color photography from 50 years ago in 1972.
Signed ...
Category
1970s Abstract Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival 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 ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Bow Bridge Landscape in Gold
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Bow Bridge is one of the most iconic and photographed features of Central Park. Built in 1862, this Victorian-era bridge spans 60 feet across the Central Park Lake and connects Cherr...
Category
1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Inkjet, 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
San Francisco Cable Car at Sunset - Golden Haze
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The quintessential symbol of San Francisco is small in the picture frame but still is the central focus of the composition. Mitchell Funk's photograph of a Cable Car is as unexpecte...
Category
1990s Impressionist 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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
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
African American Youth With Water Reflections - Self Reflection
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
"Self Reflection " In the early 1970's Mitchell Funk was a trailblazer of color photography. In this stunning portrait the photographer merges naturalism and representation with abst...
Category
1970s Conceptual Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Manhattanhenge Phenomenon, Mystical Light Setting Sun, Manhattan Solstice
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk has been chronicling lighting effects in New York for over 50 years. This recent photography captures the magical moment of golden light pouring into 42nd street while...
Category
2010s Expressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
High in the City ( Blowing Smoke and Vaping Upper East Side )
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto. Edition 3 of 15, Unframed. Other size available Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Mitchell Funk is a different type of street photogr...
Category
2010s American Modern Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Colored Boots Times Square
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso 2/15 , unframed. Other sizes available, other sizes available , printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
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
Materials
Photographic Paper
Muscular Nude Man on Dreamy Surreal Road to Destiny - Primal Man in Nature
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A hunched-over nude man on an endless sunset road conjures up big themes. Time, distance, life, death, rebirth, and infinity are weaved together in a purposely enigmatic and dreamli...
Category
1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, 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
The Fremont Sign, Las Vegas, 1974
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. '
Edition : 4 / 20
Signed, dated number lower right Printed later
Other sizes available, unframed
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 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
Pastel Alley In North Beach, San Francisco
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Colorful houses on Fresno Street in the North Beach district of San Francisco.
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, Color, Inkjet
$4,800 Sale Price
20% Off
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
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 Dessert Road to Infinity in the American West
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
An endless road is pictured in a timeless landscape. As the road winds through the vast expanse of the American West, the grandeur of the surrounding landscape minimizes a solitary c...
Category
1980s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, 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
Big Moon over Magenta Sea - Pink Crashing Wave at New Jersey Shore
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Veteran photographer Mitchell Funk strikes a fine balance between abstraction and representation in this optically pleasing color photograph. The sky turns pink magenta as waves cras...
Category
1970s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Peacock Displaying Blue and Green Plumage
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The male peacock is a living work of art. Mitchell Funk has captured a moment of full display with iridescent coloration. Arguably, the male peacock ...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Inkjet
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
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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.