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ClampArt is pleased to announce “Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938): Sports and Leisure—Paintings by Mark Beard.”

In 2004, scholar Gary Haller, writing about Bruce Sargeant (now commonly known as artist Mark Beard’s most popular alter ego), observed: “Bruce Sargeant is a mythic figure in the modern art movement. He embodies a world that is in many ways lost to us; he exudes a sensibility that fills every corner of his canvas; the heaviness of his figures hides an elusive levity. . . In the stock-still gaze of his athletes, in the subdued intensity of his still lifes, in the reflective sheen on his …