# Rex Clawson artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/rex-clawson/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:09:28.900Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Common media: Painting

## About Rex Clawson

Rex Clawson is a painter born in 1933. His identity is established most clearly through VIAF, which connects records from the Library of Congress, ISNI, and Wikidata. VIAF also displays links to the titles Family Reunion, Miss Liberty Lending Support to the Latins, and Mr. and Mrs. America, although the collected material does not provide dates, media, dimensions, ownership histories, or interpretive context for those works. Appraisily's current artist input associates the name with 176 auction-directory records, indicating that collectors may encounter works catalogued under Rex Clawson in the secondary market. Public biographical documentation in the available sources remains limited: the source pack does not establish nationality, training, exhibitions, artistic movement, or a complete life chronology. Authority identifiers are therefore especially useful for separating this artist from people with similar names and for checking catalogue attributions.

## Common works and media

The available authority record identifies Rex Clawson as a painter, so paintings are the only common work type supported by this source pack. VIAF also displays connections to the titles Family Reunion, Miss Liberty Lending Support to the Latins, and Mr. and Mrs. America. The collected evidence does not establish whether collectors should expect prints, drawings, sculpture, editions, posters, or other media, and those categories should not be assigned without additional documentation.

## Market and appraisal context

Market interpretation for a work attributed to Rex Clawson should begin with identity control. The VIAF, Library of Congress, ISNI, and Wikidata identifiers provide reference points for checking the artist named in a catalogue entry. Although the supplied Appraisily signal associates 176 records with the name, the collected evidence contains no lot-level results from which to infer a price range or trend. An appraisal should document the work's medium, technique, dimensions, condition, signature or inscriptions, provenance, date, and any relationship to authority-linked titles. Relevant public sales should then be compared by work type and sale date rather than treating every result under the artist's name as equivalent.

## 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. For Rex Clawson, current identity evidence is stronger than the collected biographical and lot-level market evidence.

## Sources

- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/53988969/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22086584
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr00030937
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000046891313
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/rex-clawson/