# Mel Crawford artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/mel-crawford/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:16:42.098Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity



## About Mel Crawford

Mel Crawford is identified in public authority records as a person who lived from 1925 to 2015. Wikidata and VIAF agree on the name and lifespan, and VIAF connects this identity with records maintained by several national libraries. The collected evidence does not establish Crawford’s nationality, training, career chronology, artistic movement, preferred media, or characteristic subjects. This profile therefore treats Mel Crawford primarily as an authority-controlled identity rather than assigning an unsupported art-historical classification. Collectors may encounter the name because Appraisily’s collected input associates it with 187 auction records, although the available source pack does not expose enough lot-level information to characterize those objects reliably. Museum documentation, archival material, published catalogs, or accessible auction-house records would be needed to build a fuller account of Crawford’s work and career. This evidence-limited presentation avoids merging the artist with similarly named people or assigning unsupported attributes.

## Common works and media

The collected sources do not identify Mel Crawford’s common media, subjects, series, or object types. Although the artist input references 187 auction records, no usable lot-level descriptions were supplied, so this page cannot responsibly characterize the works as paintings, prints, illustrations, drawings, sculptures, or another category.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily’s collected input associates Mel Crawford with 187 auction records, suggesting that the name appears repeatedly in auction data. The available source pack, however, provides no accessible lot descriptions, auction categories, realized prices, media details, attribution language, condition reports, provenance, or edition information. It therefore cannot support a price range, market trend, or claim about which kinds of works trade most often. Any appraisal should begin by confirming that the object and its auction comparables belong to the authority-controlled Mel Crawford identity documented here. Relevant public sale records should then be assessed individually rather than treating the record count alone as evidence of value or demand.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine authority-based artist identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Mel Crawford, the present identity evidence is stronger than the collected art-historical and lot-level evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59532453
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/74375334/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79045077
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/mel-crawford/