# Craig Morey artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/craig-morey/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:17:00.737Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Photography

## Portrait

![Craig Morey](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Craig_Morey_Portrait.jpg/1280px-Craig_Morey_Portrait.jpg)
Craig Morey · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Craig_Morey_Portrait.jpg

## About Craig Morey

Craig Morey (born 1952) is an American photographer identified consistently by Wikidata and the VIAF authority cluster. VIAF connects his identity with several national-library records, helping distinguish him from other people who share the name. German-language Wikipedia describes his specialty as erotic photography, although the collected source pack does not include an official artist site, museum biography, or scholarly catalogue that independently develops that context. For collectors, the safest entity match is therefore the photographer born in 1952, cross-checked through stable authority identifiers. His name may appear in auction and appraisal searches for photographs, particularly work catalogued within erotic photography, but individual objects still require work-level verification. The available evidence supports a concise photographic identity rather than a detailed career narrative: his education, exhibition history, geographic base, institutional collections, and named series remain unconfirmed in this research pack.

## Common works and media

The available identity sources support photographs as the relevant work type associated with Craig Morey. A secondary source places his work in erotic photography, but the source pack does not establish named series, photographic processes, edition practices, or other media such as paintings, drawings, or sculpture.

## Market and appraisal context

Public auction evidence should be assessed at the individual-lot level. This source pack does not provide enough lot detail to support price trends, typical ranges, record-price claims, or an artist-specific hierarchy of media. For appraisal, first confirm that a work belongs to the American photographer born in 1952, using authority identifiers rather than a name-only match. Then compare the object with verified public sales catalogued to the same artist and relevant photographic context, considering sale dates, realized prices, and genuinely comparable lots only when those records are available. The erotic-photography description currently rests on a secondary source, so it should not be treated as sufficient attribution evidence by itself.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available and can be matched reliably to the artist.

## Sources

- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/30366044/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1138612
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Morey
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Craig_Morey_Portrait.jpg
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/craig-morey/