Mark Beard is an American artist. Beard works in print

Printmaking

Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. Printmaking normally covers only the process of creating prints with an element of originality, rather than just being a photographic reproduction of a painting. Except in the case of monotyping, the process is capable...

s, paint

Paint

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, and as a sculptor, in addition to being a noted stage set designer. His portrait

Portrait

thumb|250px|right|Portrait of [[Thomas Jefferson]] by [[Rembrandt Peale]], 1805. [[New-York Historical Society]].A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness,...

s, nudes, bronze

Bronze

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s, and handicraft

Handicraft

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ed books were exhibited all over the world.

Life and career

He designed more than 20 theatrical sets in 1986–1997 in New York City, London, Cologne

Cologne

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, Vienna, and Frankfurt

Frankfurt

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.

Beard is noted for his objection to the fact that while it was once common for artists pass through different stages or period, success being known for one thing and turning yourself into a brand. Beard therefore has developed a number of distinct artist personalities, each with a detailed biography and portrait photograph, to enable himself to work in a variety of styles and mediums.

His different artist personalities include:

• Bruce Sargeant (1898–1938), (a spoof on John Singer Sargent
  John Singer Sargent
  John Singer Sargent was an American artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian era luxury. During his career, he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings...
  
  ) who died in a tragic wrestling accident;
• Hippolyte-Alexandre Michallon (1849–1930), French beaux-art painter who was the teacher of Bruce Sargeant;
• Edith Thayer Cromwell (1893–1962), an English friend and colleague of Michallon;
• Brechtholdt Streeruwitz (1890–1973), rival of Cromwell from Vienna; and
• Peter Coulter (b. 1948), New York-based artist who was influenced by Cromwell and Streeruwitz's work.

All artists work in a different style, for example Streeruwitz is expressionist and more somber, while Coulter is postmodern art

Postmodern art

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.

Beard's work by Bruce Sargeant, such as large paintings, friezes and a bronze sculpture, installed since 2005 are featured in Abercrombie & Fitch

Abercrombie & Fitch

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's flagship stores in New York, Los Angeles, London and in Tokyo.

Installed Works

• 2004 Bronze doors Edmond J. Safra Synagogue
  Edmond J. Safra Synagogue
  The Edmond J. Safra Synagogue is an Orthodox Sephardic synagogue located on East 63rd Street off of Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York.The synagogue project was initiated by philanthropist Edmond Safra before his death in 1999, and dedicated in 2003. Safra's goal was to have a Sephardic synagogue...
  
  
• 1996 Children's Opera House, Foyer, Opera House, Cologne
• 1995 Painted murals, Foyer, Opera House, Cologne
• 1993 Designed and painted new 75-seat theater: West-End / State Theater, Kölner Schauspiel, Cologne
• 1991 Mural Commission: The public spaces of das Schauspielhaus, Vienna
• 1984 "Windows on White", New York
• 1983 "The Parallel Window", New York

Collections

His works are in museum collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the largest museums in the United States, attracting over one million visitors a year. It contains over 450,000 works of art, making it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Americas...

, the Wadsworth Atheneum

Wadsworth Atheneum

The Wadsworth Atheneum is the oldest public art museum in the United States, with significant holdings of French and American Impressionist paintings, Hudson River School landscapes, modernist masterpieces and contemporary works, as well as extensive holdings in early American furniture and...

, the Whitney Museum of American Art

Whitney Museum of American Art

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, the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München

Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München

The Staatliche Graphische Sammlung in Munich , Germany, is a large collection of drawings, prints and engravings. It contains 400,000 sheets starting from the 15th century from various artists around the world. Along with Kupferstichkabinett Dresden, it is the most important collection of its kind...

, Albertina

Albertina

The Albertina is a museum in Vienna, Austria, containing the world's best collection of old master prints and drawings.Albertina, a feminine adjectival form of Albert , may also refer to:...

, as well as in Princeton

Princeton University

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, Harvard, and Yale universities and many others, and in more than 200 private collections such as Ralph Lauren

Ralph Lauren

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. He is represented by ClampArt in New York City, where he resides in a studio in Hell's Kitchen

Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan

Hell's Kitchen, also known as Clinton and Midtown West, is a neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City between 34th Street and 59th Street, from 8th Avenue to the Hudson River....

that he bought with his partner, James Manfred.

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