# Steve Tobin artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/steve-tobin/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:41:28.622Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Sculpture

## Portrait

![Steve Tobin](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Steve-tobin2014-KenEk_closeup.jpg)
Ken Ek was commisioned to photograph Steve Tobin. The Michener Art Museum had an art show featuring Steve Tobin 2014. Tobin owns the rights to photograph and has agreed to release it. · CC BY-SA 3.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steve-tobin2014-KenEk_closeup.jpg

## About Steve Tobin

Steve Tobin is an American sculptor born in 1957, an identity supported by Wikidata and VIAF authority records and linked to Getty ULAN. Public descriptions consistently place sculpture at the center of his practice. A secondary biographical source characterizes his work as encouraging viewers to reconsider natural objects, suggesting an interest in translating organic forms into sculptural encounters. Because the collected sources are primarily authority records rather than museum essays, an official artist biography, or a scholarly catalogue, this page does not assign Tobin to a named movement or present a detailed career chronology. Collectors are most likely to encounter his name in connection with sculptural works and associated auction records. Stable Wikidata, VIAF, and Getty ULAN identifiers are especially useful for distinguishing this American sculptor from people with similar names and for connecting auction entries with the correct artist identity.

## Common works and media

The evidence supports sculpture as the principal work type associated with Steve Tobin. A secondary biographical source connects his practice with looking anew at natural objects, so organic or nature-related subjects may appear. The source pack does not document specific sculptural materials, named series, editions, paintings, prints, ceramics, drawings, or posters. Each object should therefore be described from its physical evidence and documentation rather than assigned to an unsupported medium or series.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal of a work attributed to Steve Tobin should begin with identity matching: the authority records consistently identify him as an American sculptor born in 1957. Appraisily's public artist-page signal indicates auction-price records associated with this name, but the collected source pack contains no individual lot descriptions or results. A defensible comparison therefore requires review of the actual work's medium, dimensions, date, condition, provenance, and any edition information, together with relevant sale dates and realized prices. These are appraisal inputs to verify, not conclusions established by the present research. The source pack supports neither a price trend nor a forecast, and it does not show whether every indexed record represents a securely attributed work by the same artist.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7614140
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/40210587/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500279750
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Tobin
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/steve-tobin/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steve-tobin2014-KenEk_closeup.jpg