# Ken Danby artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/ken-danby/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:37:20.664Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Canadian
- Movements: Realist painting
- Common media: Painting, Watercolour

## About Ken Danby

Ken Danby (1940–2007) was a Canadian painter associated with highly realistic depictions of contemporary and everyday experience. His recorded subjects include portraits, farm and rural scenes, and sport, placing his work within Canadian representational art. Watercolour is especially prominent in published descriptions of his practice, although collectors may also encounter works categorized more broadly as paintings. Danby’s imagery is described through recognizable people, activities, and environments rather than abstraction, with close observation serving as a defining feature. This combination of accessible subject matter and technical realism helps explain why his name appears in auction and appraisal research. Appraisily connects his identity with Wikidata and established international authority records so that auction entries can be matched to the correct artist. The available source pack does not establish named periods or formal series, so individual objects should be described from their own documented characteristics rather than assigned to an unsupported phase of his career.

## Common works and media

Collectors may encounter Ken Danby’s paintings and watercolours depicting portraits, everyday activities, farm or rural life, and sport. The collected sources do not substantiate specific print editions, sculpture, ceramics, posters, named series, or other work types, so those categories should not be assigned without object-level evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

Auction comparisons for Ken Danby should distinguish watercolours from other paintings and should account for the depicted subject. Portraits, rural or farm scenes, everyday-life imagery, and sporting subjects are all documented parts of his practice, but the source pack does not show whether their markets perform similarly. Appraisily’s artist page provides an auction-price context, while useful appraisal research should examine genuinely comparable public records, their sale dates, and their realized prices. No object-level provenance, condition, edition, attribution, or price-history evidence was included in this research pack, so conclusions involving those factors require separate documentation and examination.

## 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. This profile distinguishes established identity facts from market details that still require object-level evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6387502
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Danby
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500010604
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/93195347/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86823311
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/1373
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/ken-danby/