# Alton S Tobey artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/alton-s-tobey/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:45:29.068Z
Quality: low confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting, Murals, Illustration, Works on paper and prints

## About Alton S Tobey

Alton S Tobey, also identified as Alton Stanley Tobey, was an American painter, historical artist, muralist, portraitist, illustrator, and art teacher. His documented practice therefore crossed several forms of image-making rather than fitting a single narrowly defined category. Collectors may encounter his name in connection with paintings, historical compositions, portraits, mural-related work, illustration, and works on paper. Appraisily's matched auction data also places records under broad categories that include fine art, prints, mixed media, decorative art, and editions. Those classifications help organize market records, but each object should be checked against its individual description and images. The collected public identity evidence is currently limited to a concise reference entry, so this profile does not assert unsupported birth or death dates, formal training, institutional affiliations, or membership in a specific movement. Further museum, library-authority, or estate documentation would strengthen the biographical record.

## Common works and media

Auction and appraisal contexts may include paintings, works on paper, prints, portraits, historical compositions, and material associated with mural or illustration work. Appraisily also groups matched records under sculpture and mixed media, decorative art, and editions. Because those are broad market categories, the medium, authorship, signature, dimensions, edition status, and object type should be verified from the individual lot record before classification.

## Market and appraisal context

Alton S Tobey's auction results should be compared with works sharing the same medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, and attribution status. Signatures, inscriptions, edition information, restoration, provenance, exhibition history, and catalogue references may also affect how a lot is interpreted. Appraisily's public market page contains matched records across several broad categories, but category labels alone do not confirm that every object represents a documented medium in Tobey's practice. Comparable sales are most useful when the objects are genuinely similar and when reported prices are compared on a consistent basis. Public results exclude some private transactions and may reflect incomplete feeds, revised attributions, or differing fee treatment, so they should inform rather than replace object-specific appraisal research.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Source gaps and uncertain classifications are retained rather than filled by assumption.

## Sources

- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alton_Tobey
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/alton-s-tobey/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Last_Halt-_Stop_of_Hooker%E2%80%99s_Band_in_East_Hartford_before_Crossing_River_(Study_for_East_Hartford,_Connecticut_Postal_Station_Mural).jpg