# Steve Wheeler artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/steve-wheeler/
Profile generated: 2026-08-19T18:21:25.283Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting, Printmaking

## About Steve Wheeler

Steve Wheeler (1912–1992) is identified by Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, and linked institutional records as an American painter and printmaker. These authority records are especially important because the same name belongs to a British academic whose Wikipedia biography concerns a different person. The available source pack establishes the artist's basic identity more securely than it establishes a detailed chronology, stylistic movement, preferred subjects, or named series. Collectors are most likely to encounter Wheeler's name in connection with paintings, prints, and works on paper, but each object should be checked against its date, inscriptions, provenance, and institutional identifiers before attribution. Appraisily therefore treats this page as the record of the American painter-printmaker born in 1912 and deceased in 1992. Fuller museum, estate, or scholarly documentation would be needed to describe his artistic development, affiliations, and complete body of work with greater confidence.

## Common works and media

The strongest-supported work types are paintings and prints, with works on paper also appearing in the collected auction categories. The source pack does not establish characteristic subjects, named series, sculpture production, or standard edition sizes. For an appraisal, signatures, inscriptions, printing method, edition details, materials, dimensions, condition, and provenance should therefore be recorded rather than inferred from the artist's name alone.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected Appraisily market snapshot reports 16 name-matched auction lots, including 13 priced records dated from 2008 through 2025. It gives an observed range of $25 to $53,125 and a median near $13,000, but those figures should not be read as predictions for an individual work. The broad range makes close comparison essential: medium, size, date, condition, restoration, signature or edition information, provenance, attribution confidence, and comparable subject matter can all affect an appraisal. Because Steve Wheeler is a shared name and the source pack does not provide lot-level identity verification, records should be confirmed as works by the American painter and printmaker before they are used as comparables.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Name matches and attribution details should be verified before market conclusions are drawn.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20823669
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/41725498/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500111751
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.22800.html
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/steve-wheeler/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wheeler