# Clyde Singer artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/clyde-singer/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:00:00.929Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Movements: American Scene tradition, Realism
- Common media: Painting, Works on paper and prints represented in matched auction categories

## Portrait

![Clyde Singer](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Mural_Highlighting_Clyde_Singer_in_Malvern_%28his_hometown%29.jpg/1280px-Mural_Highlighting_Clyde_Singer_in_Malvern_%28his_hometown%29.jpg)
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## About Clyde Singer

Clyde Singer (1908–1999) was an American painter and museum curator associated with the American Scene tradition. Working in a realist mode, he became known for landscapes and genre subjects drawn from everyday life. His paintings encompassed rural communities and small-town settings as well as urban scenes, including views and observations connected with New York City. Singer also spent decades at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio, while continuing to exhibit as an artist. Collectors may therefore encounter his name in both artistic and museum contexts. His recognizable subject range—from regional landscapes and community life to metropolitan scenes—places his work within the broader history of twentieth-century American representational painting. Public auction records include paintings and works on paper, although broader category matches should be checked against each object's medium, authorship, date, and physical characteristics.

## Common works and media

Singer is principally identified as a painter of landscapes and genre scenes. Rural communities, small-town life, and urban subjects—including New York City scenes—are recurring contexts in the available biography. Matched auction records are grouped under paintings, works on paper and prints, with some broader matches assigned to sculpture, mixed media, decorative art, and editions. Those broader labels do not by themselves establish that an object is characteristic or authentic; individual lot descriptions, images, materials, signatures, dimensions, and attribution language should be reviewed.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal of a work attributed to Clyde Singer should begin with closely comparable objects rather than a single overall market statistic. Relevant distinctions include medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, restoration, surface quality, and the strength of the attribution. Signatures and inscriptions should be examined in relation to the object itself, while documented provenance, exhibition history, and catalogue references can add useful context. Edition information matters for prints or other multiples. Recent public sales are most informative when the comparison works share similar materials, scale, period, subject matter, and condition. Auction databases can omit private transactions and may report fees differently, so recorded results should be treated as evidence for analysis rather than automatic price predictions.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with matched auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. Public records are starting evidence and may not capture private sales, incomplete feeds, changing attributions, or every fee convention.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26925206
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/66040150/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/147535557
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_Singer
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/clyde-singer/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mural_Highlighting_Clyde_Singer_in_Malvern_(his_hometown).jpg