# Tom Slaughter artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/tom-slaughter/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:30:00Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting

## About Tom Slaughter

Tom Slaughter (1955–2014) was an American artist identified as a painter by independent public authority records. His identity is represented in Wikidata, VIAF, Getty's Union List of Artist Names, and the Museum of Modern Art's artist index. These linked records provide a useful foundation for distinguishing him from other people with the same name. Collectors may encounter Slaughter through paintings and public auction records aggregated under his artist identity. The available source pack does not establish a specific movement, school, recurring subject, named series, or detailed chronology, so those characteristics should not be inferred from the name alone. It likewise does not document whether particular auction appearances involve unique paintings, works on paper, prints, or other formats. Matching a prospective work to the artist should therefore begin with the documented 1955–2014 lifespan and stable authority identifiers, followed by examination of the individual object's cataloging and provenance.

## Common works and media

Painting is the only work type supported by the collected identity evidence. The source pack does not provide enough detail to identify characteristic supports, techniques, subjects, print editions, sculptures, posters, drawings, or named series. Any more specific classification should come from the individual work, its labels or documentation, and the original auction catalog entry.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected evidence confirms an auction-record presence for Tom Slaughter but does not expose enough lot-level information to characterize price ranges or market trends responsibly. An appraisal should first confirm that a record refers to the American painter who lived from 1955 to 2014, using the linked authority identifiers where possible. Comparable lots should then be evaluated from their original catalog descriptions, including stated medium, date, dimensions, condition, provenance, attribution language, and sale terms. These details are not supplied by the present source pack and should not be assumed. Records attached only by a shared name may be misleading, while results from genuinely comparable works can provide more useful context when public sale data are available.

## 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 and can be matched to the correct artist.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q66035047
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/22428443/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500333967
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/7900
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/tom-slaughter/