# Clayton Pond artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/clayton-pond/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:58:39.234Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Graphic art, Sculpture

## About Clayton Pond

Clayton Pond is an American artist born in 1941. Library and vocabulary authorities identify him as both a graphic artist and a sculptor, placing his practice across two- and three-dimensional work rather than within a single documented movement. Stable records for Pond appear in Wikidata, VIAF, and Getty ULAN, while The Museum of Modern Art and the National Gallery of Art maintain artist pages under his name. These institutional and authority records help distinguish the artist from geographical features and landscape images that share the words “Clayton” and “Pond,” an important consideration for entity matching and image search. Collectors may encounter his name in connection with graphic works or sculpture, but the available source pack does not establish a complete chronology, named series, recurring subjects, or catalogue raisonné. Object-specific attribution should therefore not be inferred from a name match alone, and unsupported details about technique, date, or subject should remain unassigned.

## Common works and media

Authority data supports two broad work types associated with Clayton Pond: graphic art and sculpture. The source pack does not reliably document particular print processes, drawing media, sculptural materials, edition sizes, recurring subjects, or named series. Those characteristics should be established from the individual object and stronger work-level documentation rather than generalized from the artist's name.

## Market and appraisal context

Public auction records can help establish the market context for a work attributed to Clayton Pond, but comparisons should be matched by medium and work type. VIAF identifies Pond as a graphic artist and sculptor, so graphic works and sculptures should not be treated as interchangeable comparables. Authority identifiers from VIAF, Getty ULAN, and Wikidata are useful for confirming that a record refers to the same artist, especially because his name is vulnerable to false image-search matches. Appraisily's collected input indicates an auction-record presence, although the public artist page could not be retrieved during this collection pass. An appraisal should therefore distinguish confirmed identity evidence from lot-specific auction data and use sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots only when those records are available and relevant.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Clayton Pond, authority and museum identity records are stronger than the currently inspectable market evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55219633
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500022268
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95818383/
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/4685
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.5814.html
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/clayton-pond/