Walter Griffin Auction Prices and Value Guide

Walter Griffin auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 122 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Walter Griffin auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Walter Griffin
Source records
122
Market update
2026-02-06

Walter Griffin market snapshot

Walter Griffin shows developing auction liquidity with 46 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $952. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 6 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-01-24.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (52.8% · 19 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (47.2% · 17 sales)
  • $10,000+ (0.0% · 0 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$952
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
6
Median shift vs prior year
+100.0%
Latest recorded sale
2026-01-24

Artist context

About Walter Griffin

Walter Griffin portrait
Dennis Miller Bunker · Public domain · Source

Born

1861

Died

1935

Nationality

American

Also known as

Walter Parsons Shaw Griffin

Walter Parsons Shaw Griffin (1861–1935) was an American painter best known for landscape subjects. Public authority data identifies him as Walter Griffin, while biographical sources supply his fuller name and connect his practice with Impressionism. A French-language biography places him within the Old Lyme art-colony context and describes sustained attention to scenery in New England—especially Maine and Connecticut—as well as France, Norway, Italy, and Quebec. His time in France also brought him into contact with the landscape tradition associated with the Barbizon school. For collectors, Griffin is therefore most readily encountered through paintings whose subject is place: rural terrain, regional views, and landscapes shaped by travel between the United States and Europe. That geographic range can be useful when comparing a work’s subject and date with his documented career. Because Walter Griffin is not a unique personal name, cataloguing should preserve the full form Walter Parsons Shaw Griffin and confirm the artist against stable authority identifiers before matching auction records.

American ImpressionismOld Lyme art colonyBarbizon-school influence and contextPaintingLandscapeNew England scenery, especially Maine and ConnecticutLandscapes of France, Norway, Italy, and Quebec

Common works and media

Landscape paintings are the clearest documented work type associated with Griffin. Collectors may encounter views connected with Maine, Connecticut, and the broader New England region, together with landscapes reflecting his residence and travel in France and visits to Norway, Italy, and Quebec. The supplied evidence does not establish a recurring market in prints, editions, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or other media, so those categories should not be assigned without object-level evidence.

Market and appraisal context

Collectors should first confirm that a work is by Walter Parsons Shaw Griffin, since the shorter name Walter Griffin can identify other people. Within his documented landscape practice, comparisons are most meaningful when they align in subject, geography, and approximate date, particularly for New England or French views. Appraisily has a name-linked auction-record signal for the artist, but the collected pack did not expose individual lots, realized prices, dimensions, condition, provenance, or attribution notes. Those lot-level details require verification before drawing an appraisal conclusion. The available identity and biographical sources support describing Griffin as an American painter associated with Impressionism and landscape; they do not support a price prediction or market-trend claim.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Landscape paintings
  • American Impressionist paintings
  • New England and European landscape views

Value drivers

  1. Secure identification as Walter Parsons Shaw Griffin rather than another person named Walter Griffin
  2. Alignment of the subject and depicted geography with his documented landscape practice in New England, France, Norway, Italy, or Quebec
  3. Relationship of a work's apparent date and setting to his documented American and French contexts
  4. Availability of comparable public auction records attributed to Walter Griffin

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected pack did not provide individual lot descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, dimensions, condition reports, provenance, or attribution notes for verification.
  • The input count of 122 auction-directory records is a name-linked signal, not proof that every record represents a securely attributed work by this artist.
  • No price trend or value range can be supported from the supplied source excerpts alone.

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 Walter Griffin

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Walter Griffin 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.

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