# Paul Stankard artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/paul-stankard/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:27:34.525Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Glass, Flameworked glass

## Portrait

![Paul Stankard](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Stankard%2C_P._2021.11_1.jpg)
Paul Joseph Stankard · see-source-page
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Joseph_Stankard

## About Paul Stankard

Paul Stankard, also identified as Paul Joseph Stankard, is an American glass artist, flameworker, and author born in 1943. Public authority data describes him as a glass artist, while the collected English-language biography also identifies his work as a flameworker and writer. A Spanish-language biography particularly associates his reputation with glass paperweights. On the evidence currently available, his clearest artistic context is glass and flameworking rather than a documented named movement. Collectors may therefore encounter his name in connection with carefully worked glass objects and paperweights. The present source pack does not, however, document individual series, recurring subjects, workshop dates, or a catalogue of works. Those details should be checked against fuller museum, official-site, or scholarly documentation before being presented as established. This profile consequently emphasizes secure identity facts and the documented glass-paperweight association while leaving unsupported stylistic, chronological, and subject classifications open.

## Common works and media

The available evidence supports works in glass, particularly objects made through flameworking, and identifies glass paperweights as the best-documented work type associated with Stankard. The source pack does not substantiate specific subjects, named series, editions, sculptures, drawings, or other categories, so these should not be assumed from the artist name alone.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by confirming that an object is correctly associated with Paul Stankard and identifying its work type. The collected sources support glass, flameworking, and glass paperweights as relevant contexts, while Appraisily’s public artist record indicates that auction-price data is associated with his name. Comparable lots should be reviewed at the object level, including their descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, and attribution language. The current source pack does not provide enough accessible lot detail to establish price ranges, market direction, signature characteristics, edition information, or the effect of condition and provenance. It therefore supports careful comparison with relevant public records, not a generalized price forecast.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records and auction-house context. When sufficiently detailed records are available, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots are reviewed as part of the appraisal evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7151650
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Joseph_Stankard
- Wikipedia: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Stankard
- Paul Stankard: https://www.paulstankard.com/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500524174
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/55874436/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96018092
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/paul-stankard/