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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Style: Impressionist
Artist: Mitchell Funk
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...
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1960s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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
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Archival Paper, Archival Ink, 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
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Archival Paper, Archival Ink, 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...
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1990s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
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Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival 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
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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 ...
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2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
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Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
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...
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1990s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Street Basketball with Angelic Light Burst in Gold
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Light jumps out. Players jump up. Light bounces off a window. Basketball bounces off a backboard. The interplay of extreme light and shadow makes "Street Basketball with Angelic Li...
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1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Pink Flamingos Socializing with a Colorful Background
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Pink Flamingos are social animals. They gather in large groups and chat it up. Their gregarious natures is a benefit for photographers. Individually the bird is a living sculpture. A...
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1990s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Foggy San Francisco Skyline with Ship - Impressionist Misty Blue
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
One of the defining characteristics of Mitchell Funk's work is how he shoots with light. In "Foggy San Francisco Skyline with Ship," Funk takes light into a new realm and in doing so...
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2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Golden Light on 1970s Road - Street Photography: Literally
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photography: Literally. At a time when most color photographers were just pointing cameras and snapping images mostly during boring mid-day light, Mitchell Funk was innovatin...
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1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
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Archival Pigment
Manhattan Bridge, Empire State Building, Landscape Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A golden Empire State Building sits comfortably inside the center arch of the Manhattan bridge as if that space was designed for it. Precise composition combined with magical late...
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1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Two Dog Friends in Golden Light - French Poodle
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Golden Light defines two dogs as they have a head-to-head in a Manhattan park. Color Photographer Mitchell Funk captures the scene with a spontaneity and freshness from a rooftop van...
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2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink
Impressionist Street Scene Manhattan in Snow - Reds and Greys
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Color Photography pioneer Mitchell Funk is famous for blending representation with a broad emphasis on abstract qualities. He is a photographic minimalist cropping out extraneous details. His work focuses on color relationships and interactions between shapes. Funk started shooting in 1969, and today he's still as active as ever and continues to innovate. In "Impressionist Street Scene...
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2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Children's Playground Central Park in Impressionist Blue and Magenta.
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This image was shot in Central Park. Photographer Mitchell Funk captures the intoxicatingly beautiful optical effect of natural light as it skims off of wooden swings...
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1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The Conversation: Late Afternoon Impressionist Light in Central Park
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk breaks with traditional black and white photography and shoots on the street with Kodachrome. His goal: make color photography full of color in what was then a nascent ...
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1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
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Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Sun Reflector with old men in the park. Vintage New York Street Scene
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The glorification of light was an early theme Mitchell Funk employed in his street photography. Funk breaks with tradition and shoots street photography in color. Today in 2022, this...
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1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
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Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Greenwich village Street Scene with Colorful Walls - Street Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In the 1970s, color photography was still not recognized as fine art. As a street photographer, Mitchell Funk breaks with traditional black and white photography and shoots on the ...
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1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Neighborhood Kids on Stoop in Red Hood Brooklyn - Vintage Brooklyn
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Kids from the Neighborhood in Red Hood Brooklyn are hanging out. This is what Brooklyn was like in the early 1970s. Notice the metal garbage cans.
S...
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1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Sailboats , Marina District, San Francisco - Blue Water , Blue Sky
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
White sailboats form a beautiful pattern in San Fransico Bay. The shapes of Sailboats in San Francisco dot the bay and are echoed by Cumulus clouds
Signed and dated on the lower r...
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Early 2000s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Brooklyn Heights Promenade in Golden Light - Magical Light - Edward Hopper
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This early work by street photographer Mithcell Funk, shows a lone woman gazing out from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. The whole image in ...
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1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
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Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Volleyball in Central Park with Golden Light at the Magic Hour - Impressionist
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
New Yorkers are captured in leisure time with a magical golden rim light that transforms the subjects into shapes.
Signed dated and numbered 3/15 lower right recto, other sizes avail...
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1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
The Fremont Sign, Las Vegas Neon , 1974, Abstract Photography by Mitchell Funk
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 3/15. It's printed later, unframed and
other sizes are available. Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
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
Green Dog Yellow Dog, Animal Photography by Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Green Dog is photographed so that it is representational and abstract at the same time. The photograph is signed dated, numbered, 3/15 lower right, another...
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2010s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
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Photographic Paper
Noble Lion Silhouetted at Sunset, Animal Photography by Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Noble lion caught in quintessential and heroic pose against primal sunset sunet. Signed, dated and numbered lower right recto. 4/15 Printed later, unframed, other sizes available . P...
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1980s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
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Photographic Paper, Inkjet
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...
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1990s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Central Park Snow Storm, By Mitchell Funk, Landscape Photography, Impressionism
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Snow comes to Manhattans' Central Park and veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk captures it. Besides the understated muted beauty of the image, it's a document of emptiness in ...
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2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Ocean Drive, South Beach, Irene Marie Models Moody Night Neon by Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The classic view of Miami Beach's Ocean Drive with reflections is captured by veteran Color Photographer Mithcell Funk. The image overflows with soft bleeding colors that melt into...
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1990s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
New York City Early Morning Light, Yellows and Gold ( Color Photography )
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
For over 50 years pioneering color photographer Mitchell Funk has been documenting the life of New York City. Funk's central preoccupation is recording the beauty of the visual worl...
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2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Solitary Runner Central Park Snow Storm, Abstract Photography Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A vast and wide view of one of the world's most densely populated cities shows only one person. A lone runner surrounded by white snow is framed by New York's Central Park South sky...
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Early 2000s American Impressionist 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...
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2010s Impressionist 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 ...
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1980s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
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Inkjet
Magical New York in Autumn Colors with Golden Light on Glowing Bridge
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Color Photographer Mithcell Funk captures a magical moment when light strikes the Throgs Neck Bridge in New York City. Muted autumn colors interact in a syncopated rhythm producing ...
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Early 2000s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival 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...
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1970s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Central Park at Dawn First Light in Blue and Yellow Mist, Fine Art Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The movie light illuminates a path in Central Park on a foggy morning. The circular light appears behind a light pole and appears as if it would be the su...
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2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Central Park Boat House in Golden Light Impressionist Reflections
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Trailblazing photographer Mitchell Funk explores the possibilities of abstraction in a documentary photograph. Golden light reflects off the water creating an impressionist like ab...
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1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Park Avenue on an Red Impressionists Rainy Day Twilight, Architecture
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Iconic New York City scenes have been creatively documented by the insightful eye of veteran photographer Mitchell Funk for over 50 years. This moody twilight image of Park Avenue d...
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2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Dog Park in Magenta - Dogs and People having Fun
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
New Yorkers walk their dogs in an upper east side park. The scene is shot at dawn. First light skims across the ground and gives the whole picture a mesmerizing quality in pinks and...
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2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Rockefeller Center Nocturne in Art Deco Moody Blue, Architecture
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Iconic New York City scenes have been creatively documented by the insightful eye of veteran photographer Mitchell Funk for over 50 years. His interpretation of one of Manhattan's ...
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2010s 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
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Archival Pigment
Bethesda Fountain with Out of Focus Figures
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Bethesda Terrace, Central Park's masterpiece gathering place is joyfully interpreted by master-of-light photographer Mitchell Funk. This archival col...
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2010s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Vintage Rowboat in Central Parks Boat Landing with Pastel Colors
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Stacked blue rowboats reflect their pastel azure color into the golden brown waters of the Lake in Central Park. This image was taken 54 years ago. This style of wooden rowboat...
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1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, 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...
Category
1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
French Poodle Central Park - Dog in Yellow Golden Light, Color Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Late 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 and printed later, ...
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1990s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Old Las Vegas, Fremont Street Neon Signs, Abstract Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Classic view of downtown neon signs of Las Vegas before the wrecking ball demolished one of America's most unique sights.
The print is signed, dated and numbered with an edition of ...
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1970s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
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Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Ink
Ducks in Flight with Blue water Droplets
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The work is signed dated and numbered 2/15 lower right recto with other sizes available, and unframed. The color of the photograph is quite subtle and will be rendered differently ...
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2010s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Old New York Bar with Ballantine Beer Neon Sign
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Moody image of a man looking out while the photographer looks in. The picture is organized in a composition of alternating floating faces and floating signs. This work also represen...
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1970s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Flower Hat in Yellows, Blues and Pinks
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Woman as a flower.
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso ,3/15 unframed. Other sizes available,
Mitchell Funk is an abstractionist while being a documentarian
Mitchell ...
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2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Inkjet, 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
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
San Francisco Cable Cars Landscape against Bay Bridge, Urban Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Compositional exactitude and magical gold lighting describe this iconic work of San Franscico
This image is signed, dated and numbered 2/15 lower right recto. Other sizes are availab...
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1990s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Magical light on road. Litchfield, Connecticut
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
As if it were illuminated from an unearthly source, a Ford Falcon glows as it cruises down a country road. Telefone lines extend across the road as if the...
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1960s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
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Photographic Paper
Surfer, East Hampton Beach with Dramatic Sunset and Golden Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Surfer, East Hampton Beach with Dramatic Sunset and Golden Light
2014, Signed dated and numbered 4/15, right recto, inkjet archival print lower
East Hampton Beach with Dramatic Sunset with silhouetted male surfer...
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Early 2000s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Manhattan Bridge, Empire State Building
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A golden Empire State Building sits comfortably inside the center arch of the Manhattan bridge as if that space was designed for it. Precise composition combined with magical lat...
Category
1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Hotel Pierre and Sherry-Netherland from Central Park Landscape
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This image of Hotel Pierre and Sherry-Netherland from Central Park was shot at magic hour. That's when the light is late in the day and skims over the surfaces of the grass and build...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Inkjet
Noble Lion at Sunset
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Noble lion caught in quintessential and heroic pose against primal sunset sunet. Signed, dated and numbered lower right recto. 4/15 Printed later, unframed, other sizes available Pr...
Category
1980s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
San Francisco Cable Cars Landscape against Bay Bridge
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Compositional exactitude and magical gold lighting describe this iconic work of San Franscico
This image is signed, dated and numbered 2/15 lower right recto. . The work is unframed ...
Category
1990s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Surfer, East Hampton Beach with Dramatic Sunset and Golden Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Surfer, East Hampton Beach with Dramatic Sunset and Golden Light
2014, Signed dated and numbered 4/15, right recto, inkjet archival print lower
East Hampton Beach with Dramatic Sunset with silhouetted male surfer...
Category
Early 2000s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
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