# Thornton Oakley - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-15T23:30:23.612Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 37
- Lots with prices: 23
- First auction date: 2005-01-21
- Latest auction date: 2025-07-31
- Median realised price: $976
- Price range: $80 to $35,380

## Market Takeaway
Thornton Oakley has 37 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $976. 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 \($976\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($250 to $4,375\) 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: 52.2% (12 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 43.5% (10 sales)
- $10,000\+: 4.3% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $850
- Previous 12 months median: $450
- Median shift: 88.9%
- Latest sale date: 2025-07-31
- Days since latest sale: 287
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 9 lots
- Material Culture: 4 lots
- Concept Art Gallery: 2 lots
- DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers: 2 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 2 lots
- Alex Cooper: 1 lots
- Alexander Historical Auctions LLC: 1 lots
- Aspire Auctions Fine Art & Antiques: 1 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Brunk Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-06-07 | Thornton Oakley original pastel drawing for Westward Ho | Concept Art Gallery | $850
2. 2024-08-27 | Thornton Oakley \(1881\-1953\) Charcoal and Gouache Drawings | Material Culture | $450
3. 2024-02-01 | Thornton Oakley \(American, 1881\-1953\) | DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers | $1,500
4. 2023-12-14 | THORNTON OAKLEY "Gavarnie Paysanne." | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
5. 2023-12-05 | Thornton Oakley, The Grain Harvest | Old Kinderhook Auction Company | $1,000
6. 2023-11-08 | Attributed to Thornton Oakley | DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers | N/A
7. 2023-07-11 | Thornton Oakley \(American 1881\-1953\), Hog Island, The Wet Basin, Lithograph, Frame: 29 1/2 x 22 in. \(74.9 x 55.9 cm.\) | Weschler's | $80
8. 2022-12-02 | THORNTON OAKLEY \(AMERICAN, 1881\-1953\) | Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers | $500
9. 2022-07-05 | Thornton Oakley \(1881 \- 1953\)American "Boats in a Harbor" | Cutler Bay Auctions | $300
10. 2021-10-07 | Thornton Oakley \(1881 \- 1953\) | Weiss Auctions | $1,650
11. 2021-02-06 | Thornton Oakley \(American/Pennsylvania, 1881\) | Neal Auction Company | $35,380
12. 2020-04-02 | THORNTON OAKLEY, Pennsylvania, 1881\-1953, Fish on a coral reef., Pen and ink on paper, 3.5" x 6.5" sight. Framed 11.5" x 14.5". | Eldred's | $250
13. 2017-11-20 | Thornton Oakley \(1881\-1953\) Pennsylvania Railroad, Ore Handling Facilities, Girard Point, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 29 3/4 x 40in overall: 38 x 38in | Bonhams | $6,250
14. 2017-05-15 | Thornton Oakley \(1881\-1953\) Original Illustration | Material Culture | N/A
15. 2017-05-13 | Thornton Oakley mixed media | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $200
16. 2017-03-19 | Thornton Oakley \(American, 1881\-1953\) Ship Builder, 1918 Gouache and charcoal on | Heritage Auctions | N/A
17. 2016-04-10 | Thornton Oakley \(American, 1881\-1953\) An Original Illustration | Material Culture | $100
18. 2016-03-05 | Thornton Oakley "Bituminous Domain" 1943 | Concept Art Gallery | $2,300
19. 2015-11-29 | Thornton Oakley \(American, 1881\-1953\) | Material Culture | $250
20. 2015-07-09 | THORNTON OAKLEY | Alexander Historical Auctions LLC | N/A
21. 2014-10-30 | Thornton Oakley \(American, 1881\-1953\) | Aspire Auctions Fine Art & Antiques | $1,667
22. 2013-12-07 | Thornton Oakley | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | $976
23. 2012-12-06 | Thornton Oakley \(1881\-1953\) | Christie's | $5,000
24. 2012-12-06 | Thornton Oakley \(1881\-1953\) | Christie's | $4,375

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