# Harold Newton artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/harold-newton/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:00:06.857Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Movements: Florida Highwaymen
- Common media: Painting

## About Harold Newton

Harold Newton (1934–1994) was an American landscape artist and a founding member of the Florida Highwaymen, a group of African American artists associated with Florida landscape painting. Authority records also index him under Andrew James Newton. Newton’s imagery centers on the state’s coastlines, wetlands, and other landscape settings. The collected biographical source describes Newton and his Highwaymen peers as influenced by Florida painter A. E. Backus. His work is therefore encountered both as an individual body of landscape painting and within the wider collecting history of the Florida Highwaymen. For collectors, essential identity checks include the Newton attribution, the work’s relationship to his documented Florida subjects, and any signature, inscription, provenance, or supporting history. Appraisily’s current index contains a substantial group of matched public auction records under his name, making comparison possible while still requiring scrutiny of each object’s medium, dimensions, condition, date, and attribution.

## Common works and media

Collectors most commonly encounter Newton through paintings of Florida landscapes, particularly coastal and wetland settings. The collected sources do not establish a reliable breakdown by paint type, support, print edition, or other medium, so an individual work’s materials, dimensions, signature, condition, and provenance should be documented rather than assumed.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily’s collected market snapshot reports 94 matched auction records, including 84 priced records dated 2008–2026. In that snapshot, observed results range from $720 to $45,000, with a median near $5,000 and many comparable sales between $2,200 and $8,000. These figures describe the indexed sample, not a prediction for a particular work. An appraisal should compare like with like: medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, restoration, signature or inscriptions, provenance, exhibition or catalogue history, and attribution confidence can all affect relevance. Reported totals may differ in their treatment of buyer’s premiums or fees. Private sales, incomplete feeds, and later attribution changes may also sit outside the public record.

## 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. Public results provide market evidence but do not replace object-specific attribution, condition review, or appraisal.

## Sources

- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/43050166/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15452967
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Newton
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/harold-newton/