Thomas W. Benton Auction Prices and Value Guide

Thomas W. Benton auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 202 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Thomas W. Benton auction prices: quick answer

Thomas W. Benton auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Thomas W. Benton
Source records
202
Market update
2026-02-06

Thomas W. Benton market snapshot

Thomas W. Benton shows solid auction liquidity with 135 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $350. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 12 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-01-01.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (83.8% · 62 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (16.2% · 12 sales)
  • $10,000+ (0.0% · 0 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$300
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
12
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2026-01-01

Artist context

About Thomas W. Benton

Born

1930

Died

2007

Nationality

American

Also known as

Thomas Whelan Benton

Thomas W. Benton, also identified as Thomas Whelan Benton, was an American artist who lived from 1930 to 2007. The available public identity sources describe him as best known for political posters and for collaborations with writer Hunter S. Thompson. Those associations place his work within the visual culture surrounding American political commentary, countercultural publishing, and poster design. Collectors may encounter his name on politically themed graphic works or material connected with those collaborations. Careful identification is particularly important because the abbreviated form “Thomas W. Benton” can provide less biographical context than his full name. The collected evidence establishes the artist’s basic identity and principal area of recognition, but it does not provide a museum biography, catalogue raisonné, detailed chronology, or authoritative inventory of works. Accordingly, individual objects should be assessed from their own inscriptions, documentation, physical characteristics, and auction history rather than assigned to a broader movement or body of work without further evidence.

PostersPolitical themes

Common works and media

The collected biographical evidence most clearly associates Thomas W. Benton with political posters and collaborative work involving Hunter S. Thompson. The source pack does not support a broader list of paintings, sculptures, drawings, or formally documented print editions. Objects outside the established poster context require additional attribution research.

Market and appraisal context

Public evidence in the collected source pack supports political posters, especially material connected with Hunter S. Thompson, as a relevant auction and appraisal context for Thomas W. Benton. A documented relationship to that collaboration may help identify and contextualize a work, but the available sources do not establish edition sizes, relative scarcity, price trends, or an artist-specific condition hierarchy. Any appraisal should therefore begin by confirming that the named artist is Thomas W. Benton and by reviewing the object’s cataloguing and documented association. Lot-level sale dates, realized prices, and genuinely comparable public records are needed before drawing a value conclusion. No major auction-house source was available in this research pack, so market claims should remain provisional.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Political posters

Value drivers

  1. Documented connection to Benton's collaborations with Hunter S. Thompson
  2. Correct identification of Thomas W. Benton as the artist

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack contains no major auction-house catalogues or public lot descriptions supporting detailed artist-specific market conclusions.
  • The Appraisily artist page returned a rate-limit response during collection, so its auction records could not be examined in this research pass.
  • Exact birth and death dates appear only in a collected Wikipedia-language source and require confirmation from an institutional or primary biographical record.
  • No price trend, scarcity, edition structure, or attribution rule can be established from the available sources.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, thin 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 Thomas W. Benton

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Artist value FAQ

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