Contemporary New York City-based artist Mark Beard has long demonstrated command in a variety of mediums — he works in oil paint, bronze, ceramics and more. Beard is known mainly for his portraits and figurative paintings, but he is prolific in figurative drawing and nude photography as well.
Beard was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1986, he began working as a set designer, and for the next decade, he created more than 20 sets in New York City, London, Frankfurt, Vienna and Cologne. As a painter and printmaker, Beard didn’t wish to confine himself to a rigid style and instead sought to explore Impressionism, Art Nouveau and other movements in a range of mediums. In order to freely move from one style to the next, Beard created several different personas, assigning a specific biography to each one.
Beard's most prominent artistic alter ego is Bruce Sargeant, whom the artist has positioned in exhibitions as an early 20th-century painter. Beard's work as Sargeant is a detailed study of the male physique. The paintings often feature sculpted athletic men engaged in physical activities like wrestling and rowing. The work is steeped in homoeroticism, and the artist’s name itself is a reference to painter John Singer Sargent — while he’s best known for his Edwardian-era portraits, John Singer Sargent also created murals and drawings of male nudes that were similarly reflective of a homoerotic sensibility.
Beard is also an accomplished landscape painter. His great-grandfather, George Beard, was a regional painter and photographer of the Rocky Mountains. Mark spent summers at his grandfather's 19th-century log cabin retreat as a child. These formative experiences are reflected in his own stunning landscape paintings.
Beard's artwork is held in many high-profile museum collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Today, Beard resides in the Manhattan loft that he purchased in 1994 with his partner, James Manfred. It serves as both his home and his studio. The space is filled with his oil paintings, drawings and sculptures.
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Untitled No. 51
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Polaroid transfer on Rives BFK paper Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil, recto Also blindstamped, l.r. 22 x 15 inches, sheet 10 x 8 inches, image This artwork is offered by Clam...
Photogravure
Manhattan Fifteenth Year Reader; 1995: The Grim Years
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Handmade book with 51 collaged linocuts by Mark Beard, also painted and hand-colored by the artist Signed and numbered in pencil Text by Mark Beard, silkscreened in the artist's han...
Linocut
Light Up I!
By Carla Sutera Sardo
Located in New York, NY
PACKAGING: 30x40" and 40x60" prints are shipped in a special fortified tube to guard against bending or damage. Framed 30x40" prints are shipped via FedEx in a bespoke cardboard box ...
Photographic Paper
$1,650
H 16 in W 17.75 in
Barbara Latham 1950s Modernist Linocut “Saturday Morning, Taos Plaza”
By Barbara Latham
Located in Denver, CO
A vibrant celebration of Taos life and culture, Saturday Morning (Market, Taos Plaza, New Mexico) is a striking 1950s modernist linocut print by acclaimed New Mexico artist Barbara L...
Linocut
$450
H 12 in W 9 in
Feminist Judaica Linocut Relief Print Basya Wuensch Kabbalah Sefirot Hebrew Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Basya Wuensch Sefirot, Netzach (victory, endurance, eternity) Woman with Tree 2023 Hand printed color linocut on cold pressed watercolor paper Hand signed and numbered 12 X 9 inches Basya Wuensch Reiter...
Linocut
$450
H 12 in W 9 in
Feminist Judaica Linocut Relief Print Basya Wuensch Kabbalah Sefirot Hebrew Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Basya Wuensch Sefirot, Malchus (royalty, kingship, humility) Motherhood, Woman with baby in womb 2023 Hand printed color linocut on cold pressed watercolor paper Hand signed and numbered 12 X 9 inches Basya Wuensch Reiter...
Linocut
Carnaval
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) was one of the most transformative figures of 20th-century art. A restless innovator, his work reshaped the possibilities of representation across painting,...
Linocut
$2,695
H 19 in W 16.5 in
Plate 6: Mais Soudain le Soleil, Secouant sa Criniere, from Pasiphae
By Henri Matisse
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Henri Matisse Title: Plate 6: Mais Soudain le Soleil, Secouant sa Criniere (But Suddenly the Sun, Shaking its Mane) Portfolio: Pasiphae Medium: Linocut on Arches vellum Year:...
Linocut
Aqva Pink Flower
By Carla Sutera Sardo
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography, thus s...
Photographic Paper
Ode to van der Weyden's Portrait of a Lady
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 10.5 inches - Edition 1 of 7 with 2 APs framing is an additional $265. Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien...
Archival Pigment
$450
H 12 in W 9 in
Feminist Judaica Linocut Relief Print Basya Wuensch Kabbalah Sefirot Hebrew Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Basya Wuensch Sefirot, Hod (glory, splendor) Mother & Baby, Flowers 2023 Hand printed color linocut on cold pressed watercolor paper Hand signed and numbered 12 X 9 inches Basya Wuensch Reiter...
Linocut
Femme endormie (Dormeuse), By Pablo Picasso
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Femme endormie [Dormeuse] By Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso, a pioneering Spanish artist, co-founded the Cubist movement and played a pivotal role in the development of modern art dur...
Archival Paper, Linocut
$450
H 12 in W 9 in
Feminist Judaica Linocut Relief Print Basya Wuensch Kabbalah Sefirot Hebrew Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Basya Wuensch Sefirot, Gevura (strength, restraint) Childbirth, Delivery 2023 Hand printed color linocut on cold pressed watercolor paper Hand signed and numbered 12 X 9 inches Basya Wuensch Reiter...
Linocut
$450
H 12 in W 9 in
Feminist Judaica Linocut Relief Print Basya Wuensch Kabbalah Sefirot Hebrew Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Basya Wuensch Sefirot, Tiferet (beauty in harmony) Family, 2023 Hand printed color linocut on cold pressed watercolor paper Hand signed and numbered 12 X 9 inches Basya Wuensch Reiter...
Linocut