John Beardman b. 1937
John Beardman began painting at the age of nineteen and has been a devout practitioner of "action painting" for over six decades. Inspired by Abstract Expressionist artists such as Willem de Kooning, Beardman uses a linear framework to add structure to his painterly marks and often collages directly onto his canvases, pushing the compositions into a sculptural realm. For much of his career, Beardman’s subject has been the natural landscape, particularly that of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia where the artist had his studio from 1992 to 2016.
Beardman was born in Youngstown, Ohio in 1937 and attended Oberlin College, Southern Illinois University and the Sorbonne in Paris. He has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at galleries throughout the United States and internationally. His work is represented in the collections of the Detroit Institue of Arts and the Cranbrook Academy of Art. The artist continues to live and work in Pennsylvania.
Auction Results John Beardman
John Beardman
Untitled (Beard #7)
estimate: $200–300
result: $750
John Beardman
Deep in the Heart
estimate: $1,000–1,500
result: $625
John Beardman
Untitled
estimate: $1,000–1,500
result: $688
John Beardman
Grey Night
estimate: $1,000–1,500
result: $2,860
John Beardman
Untitled (two works)
estimate: $800–1,200
result: $1,625
John Beardman
Franicesa del Renini
estimate: $600–800
result: $576
John Beardman
Petaloutha
estimate: $1,000–1,500
result: $750
John Beardman
Claude's Trickle
estimate: $700–900
result: $910