# John Wesley Cotton - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T05:47:27.403Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 34
- Lots with prices: 30
- First auction date: 2003-11-18
- Latest auction date: 2025-09-11
- Median realised price: $408
- Price range: $30 to $9,600

## Market Takeaway
John Wesley Cotton has 34 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $408. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. These metrics reflect recorded public auction results and may not include private transactions or every premium outlier sale.

## How To Read This Data
- Use median \($408\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($108 to $1,800\) as the middle 50% of recorded sales.
- Auction prices can include buyer premiums or fees depending on house reporting, so compare on a like\-for\-like basis.
- Condition, provenance, size, and attribution confidence can move final value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 70% (21 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 30% (9 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $225
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-11
- Days since latest sale: 231
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Waddington's: 13 lots
- John Moran Auctioneers: 5 lots
- Rachel Davis Fine Arts: 3 lots
- Skinner: 3 lots
- Armstrong Fine Art: 1 lots
- Austin Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Barridoff Auctions: 1 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates: 1 lots
- Nest Egg Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-09-11 | JOHN WESLEY COTTON \(CANADIAN, 1869\-1931\), OUR WINDOW \- OUR PEPPER TREE \- OUR CAT \- OUR GIRL | Waddington's | CA$225
2. 2025-05-24 | John Wesley Cotton \(Canadian, 1868\-1931\) Palisades, Santa Monica | Westbridge Fine Art Auction House | N/A
3. 2024-03-23 | John Wesley COTTON, Charles Walter SIMPSON: Two Canadian Etchings | Armstrong Fine Art | $100
4. 2023-03-09 | John Wesley Cotton, Aquatint, "France" | Nye & Company | N/A
5. 2022-12-10 | JOHN WESLEY COTTON \(1868\-1931\) AQUATINT ETCHING | Austin Auction Gallery | $200
6. 2021-12-12 | John Wesley Cotton \(1868\-1931\) American, Aquatint | Sarasota Estate Auction | $2,500
7. 2021-08-14 | John Wesley Cotton, Can./Am. 1868\-1931, "Near the Salton Sea", Oil on canvas laid to board, framed, 12 3/4" x 18 1/2" sight, 17 1/8" x | Barridoff Auctions | $1,800
8. 2021-05-08 | John Wesley Cotton, Two Etchings | Nest Egg Auctions | $30
9. 2016-09-24 | John Wesley Cotton \(1868\-1931 Glendale, CA\) | John Moran Auctioneers | $488
10. 2016-04-30 | JOHN WESLEY COTTON \(CANADIAN/AMERICAN, 1868\-1931\) LANDSCAPE PRINT | Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates | $460
11. 2016-03-10 | JOHN WESLEY COTTON \(CANADIAN, 1869\-1931\), UNTITLED \(DUTCH FARM WITH WINDMILL\), COLOUR AQUATINT; SIGNED AND DATED ‘16 LOWER RIGHT, NUMBERED No.5/50 LOWER LEFT \(Plate, 14” x 17.5”\) | Waddington's | CA$120
12. 2016-02-20 | John Wesley Cotton etching | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $90
13. 2015-12-12 | John Wesley Cotton etching and drypoint | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $110
14. 2015-10-22 | JOHN WESLEY COTTON \(CANADIAN, 1869\-1931\); \(2\)DONALD SHAW MacLAUGHLAN \(CANADIAN, 1876\-1938\), BOOKSTALLS ON THE SEINE, PARIS; THE CATHEDRAL, TOURS 1926 \(2\), \(3 WORKS\) FORMER \- ETCHING; TITLED AND SIGNED IN IMAGE, AND SIGNED IN PENCIL \(Plate, 3.8” x | Waddington's | CA$120
15. 2015-05-14 | JOHN WESLEY COTTON \(CANADIAN, 1869\-1931\), HARBOUR SCENE, WATERCOLOUR; SIGNED TWICE LOWER LEFT AND RIGHT \(Sight, 6.5” x 9.5”\) | Waddington's | CA$108
16. 2014-05-16 | John Wesley Cotton \(American, 1868\-1931\), Harbor View, Martigues, France, Signed "JOHN COTTON" l.r., dedicated "A bit of ...to our frie | Skinner | $1,476
17. 2014-03-25 | John Wesley Cotton \(1868\-1931 Glendale, CA\) | John Moran Auctioneers | $6,000
18. 2014-03-25 | John Wesley Cotton \(1868\-1931 Glendale, CA\) | John Moran Auctioneers | $8,400
19. 2013-12-07 | John Wesley Cotton intaglio | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $325
20. 2013-10-10 | JOHN WESLEY COTTON \(CANADIAN, 1869\-1931\) | Waddington's | CA$408
21. 2013-09-19 | JOHN WESLEY COTTON \(CANADIAN, 1869\-1931\) COUNTRY | Waddington's | CA$36
22. 2013-09-19 | JOHN WESLEY COTTON \(CANADIAN, 1869\-1931\) STILL | Waddington's | N/A
23. 2013-04-25 | JOHN WESLEY COTTON \(CANADIAN, 1868\-1931\) | Waddington's | CA$60
24. 2013-04-25 | JOHN WESLEY COTTON \(CANADIAN, 1868\-1931\) | Waddington's | CA$108

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