Carl Moon Auction Prices and Value Guide

Carl Moon auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 178 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Carl Moon auction prices: quick answer

Carl Moon auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Carl Moon
Source records
178
Market update
2026-02-06

Carl Moon market snapshot

Carl Moon shows solid auction liquidity with 85 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $550. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-07-02.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (70.3% · 45 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (28.1% · 18 sales)
  • $10,000+ (1.6% · 1 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$200
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
2
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-07-02

Artist context

About Carl Moon

Carl Moon portrait
Publicity story for Indian Legends in Rhyme , 1917 · Public domain · Source

Born

1878

Died

1948

Nationality

American

Also known as

Carl Everton Moon, Carl E. Moon, Karl Everton Moon

Carl Everton Moon (1878–1948) was an American photographer, painter, illustrator, and writer whose career centered on images and narratives involving Native American subjects. Public authority records identify him as both a painter and photographer, while biographical summaries also connect him with book and magazine illustration. His portrait work is particularly associated with Indigenous people in New Mexico, Arizona, and Oklahoma, placing much of his known output within the visual culture of the American West. Collectors may therefore encounter Moon through photographs, painted works, illustrations, or published material rather than through a single uniform category of objects. His full name and cross-referenced authority identifiers are useful for distinguishing him in collection and auction records. Because the available sources provide limited museum-level interpretation of individual works, descriptions should identify medium, subject, and documented context carefully and avoid making unsupported claims about authorship, historical accuracy, or cultural meaning.

PhotographyPaintingBook and magazine illustrationNative American subjectsPortraits of Indigenous people in New Mexico, Arizona, and Oklahoma

Common works and media

Works associated with Carl Moon may appear as photographs, paintings, book or magazine illustrations, and illustrated publications. Portraits and other representations of Native American people are the best-supported recurring subject area in the collected sources, especially material associated with New Mexico, Arizona, and Oklahoma. The available evidence does not establish specific editions, named series, or standard formats, so those details should be verified from the individual object.

Market and appraisal context

Appraisal of a work attributed to Carl Moon should begin by establishing its object type and confirming the artist's identity through documented records. A photograph should ordinarily be compared with photographs, while paintings and publication illustrations require comparables from their respective categories. Subject matter and a documented connection to New Mexico, Arizona, or Oklahoma may help place an object within Moon's known area of activity. Appraisily has an auction-record signal for the artist, but this source pack contains no lot-level prices or auction-house analysis. Any valuation should therefore use comparable public sales matched by medium, subject, date, dimensions, and object characteristics rather than inferring a price from Moon's biography alone.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Photographs
  • Paintings
  • Illustrations and illustrated publications

Value drivers

  1. Work type and medium, particularly whether the object is a photograph, painting, or publication illustration
  2. Subject matter and documented geographic context, including associations with New Mexico, Arizona, or Oklahoma
  3. Reliable attribution to Carl Everton Moon using stable authority identifiers and documented object records
  4. Comparable public auction records, sale dates, and realized prices for works of the same type when those records are available

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack does not include individual auction-lot descriptions, realized prices, edition details, provenance, condition reports, or auction-house market commentary.
  • No price trend, record price, scarcity claim, or forecast can be supported from this source pack.
  • Photographs, paintings, and illustrations should not be treated as directly interchangeable comparables.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.

Source-grounded artist Markdown

Data basis

This page is built from Appraisily's public auction market index. Private transactions, incomplete sale feeds, and attribution changes may not be fully represented.

LLM-readable Markdown summary for Carl Moon

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Carl Moon worth?

Comparable public auction sales are the best starting point, but final value depends on the specific artwork, condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence.

Can Appraisily value my Carl Moon artwork?

Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.