John Elwood Bundy Auction Prices and Value Guide
John Elwood Bundy auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 174 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
John Elwood Bundy auction prices: quick answer
John Elwood Bundy auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- John Elwood Bundy
- Source records
- 174
- Market update
- 2026-02-06
John Elwood Bundy market snapshot
John Elwood Bundy shows solid auction liquidity with 51 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $700. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 1 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-09-13.
Realized price distribution
- Under $1,000 (55.3% · 21 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000 (44.7% · 17 sales)
- $10,000+ (0.0% · 0 sales)
- Median sale (last 12 months)
- $750
- Sales recorded (last 12 months)
- 1
- Median shift vs prior year
- +100.0%
- Latest recorded sale
- 2025-09-13
Artist context
About John Elwood Bundy
Born
1853
Died
1933
Nationality
American
Also known as
Bundy, John Elwood
John Elwood Bundy (1853–1933) was an American landscape painter associated in the collected sources with American Impressionism and the Richmond Group of painters in Indiana. Authority records from Wikidata and VIAF agree on his name, lifespan, American identity, and work as a landscapist. Contextual sources describe Bundy as a principal figure within the Richmond Group and emphasize his interpretations of Indiana scenery, especially beech woods. His documented reputation in this source pack therefore rests on regional landscape painting rather than on a broad range of genres. Collectors researching a work attributed to Bundy are most likely to encounter painted landscapes connected with the visual culture of Indiana around the turn of the twentieth century. The available evidence is strong for his identity and artistic specialization, but thinner for exact life dates, training, exhibition history, named works, and museum holdings.
American ImpressionismPaintingLandscapeIndiana beech forests
Common works and media
The collected sources identify Bundy primarily as a painter of landscapes. Indiana scenery—and beech forests in particular—is the most specific recurring subject documented in the source pack. The evidence does not establish a regular market in Bundy prints, editions, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, or posters, so objects in those categories require separate authorship and medium research rather than assumptions based on his landscape-painting reputation.
Market and appraisal context
The supplied Appraisily index reports 174 auction records associated with Bundy, while the authority and contextual sources support landscape painting as the most defensible broad cataloging category. This research pack does not contain individual lot descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, measurements, condition reports, provenance, or attribution notes, and the public Appraisily page was rate-limited during collection. It therefore cannot support a price trend or specific value conclusion. A work-level appraisal should document those object and sale-record details and use relevant public landscape lots when comparable records are available, with care around any claimed connection to Bundy's documented Indiana or beech-forest subjects.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- American landscape paintings
Value drivers
- Comparable public auction records for landscape paintings, when detailed lot records are available
- Correspondence with Bundy's documented Indiana landscape and beech-forest subject matter
Appraisal caveats
- The supplied index reports 174 records, but the collected Appraisily page response was rate-limited and supplied no individual lot descriptions or realized prices.
- The source pack does not support conclusions about price trends, record prices, rarity, or the market effect of condition, provenance, dimensions, date, or attribution.
- Movement, group affiliation, and specific beech-forest subject matter rely primarily on Wikipedia-derived contextual sources and merit confirmation from a museum or scholarly publication.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.
- Wikidata library authority
- VIAF library authority
- Getty Vocabulary Program library authority
- Wikipedia wikipedia
- Wikipedia wikipedia
- Appraisily appraisily artist page
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.
Artist value FAQ
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