# Charles Pont artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Movements: Modernism
- Common media: watercolor, printmaking, oil painting, pen and ink drawing, pencil drawing, graphic design and illustration, calligraphy, mural

## About Charles Pont

Charles Ernest Pont (1898–1971) was an American artist and Baptist minister whose creative output spanned an exceptionally broad range of media. Active across much of the twentieth century, Pont worked in watercolor, printmaking, oil painting, pen and ink, and pencil, while also producing extensive graphic-design work including book and magazine illustration, greeting cards, calligraphy, murals, and typographic design. His style absorbed modernist currents during the 1930s, yet he is best remembered for the precision of his prints and the realism of his watercolors. Pont's work is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York as well as hundreds of private and public collections. His dual vocation as an artist and minister gave his oeuvre a distinctive breadth that bridges fine art, religious art, and commercial illustration.

## Common works and media

Pont was prolific across many forms. Collectors and appraisers most commonly encounter his prints (etchings, woodcuts, and other intaglio and relief works), watercolor paintings, and pen-and-ink or pencil drawings. He also produced oil paintings, illustrated books and magazine covers, designed greeting cards and decorative papers, painted murals, and created calligraphic and typographic works. His graphic-design commissions — including sign painting and commercial illustration — also surface in estate and resale markets. Works range from small-format prints and drawings to larger watercolors and mural-scale pieces.

## Market and appraisal context

Charles Pont's work appears regularly in the prints, watercolors, and works-on-paper categories at auction. Collectors most often encounter his fine-art etchings, woodcuts, and watercolor paintings, which tend to be more sought after than his commercial graphic-design pieces. Factors that can affect appraisal include the medium and technique, with precision prints and realistic watercolors generally regarded as his strongest work; the date and stylistic period, particularly pieces from his modernist-influenced 1930s phase; provenance and exhibition history; and whether the piece is a fine-art original or a commercial commission. Comparable auction records and lot history should be reviewed for current market context.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research from museum, library-authority, and encyclopedia sources with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Charles Pont, identity data is grounded in Wikidata, VIAF, the Library of Congress authority file, and the MoMA artist record, while market context draws on the Appraisily and Invaluable auction database of nearly 200 catalogued lots.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5077156
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._Pont
- VIAF (OCLC): https://viaf.org/viaf/72758183/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82258216
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/62280