# Tom Wood artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/tom-wood/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:21:19.168Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Canadian
- Common media: Painting, Graphic art and works on paper

## About Tom Wood

Tom Wood (1913–1997) is identified in the collected sources as a Canadian painter, graphic artist, and designer. He also served as an Official War Artist in the Royal Canadian Navy and participated in the D-Day landings, placing part of his documented career within Canada's Second World War art and service history. Collectors may encounter his name on paintings, graphic works, or works on paper, although the available source pack does not establish a complete chronology, list of subjects, or recognized series. Care is especially important when researching Wood because several other people share the same name, including a photographer represented among the collected image-search results. A secure identification should therefore connect a work's signature, date, medium, provenance, and subject to the Canadian artist rather than relying on the name alone. Additional museum or archival documentation would help define his artistic development and institutional representation more precisely.

## Common works and media

The strongest biographical evidence describes Wood as a painter and graphic artist, so paintings and graphic works or works on paper are the most defensible categories to investigate. Appraisily's auction index also contains matches classified as prints, mixed media, sculpture, decorative art, and editions, but the source pack does not establish all of these as characteristic parts of the Canadian artist's practice. Verify maker identity, medium, signature, date, and provenance before using a matched lot as a comparable.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin with comparables that can be securely attributed to the Canadian artist Tom Wood. The most useful comparisons align medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, and provenance; signatures, inscriptions, restoration history, exhibition references, and edition information can also affect interpretation. Appraisily's matched auction index includes paintings and works on paper, along with broader category matches such as prints, mixed media, sculpture, decorative art, and editions. Those broader matches should be checked lot by lot because name matching may combine unrelated makers or namesakes. Public results provide market context, not a price guarantee, and differences in attribution, condition, reporting conventions, or sale venue can make superficially similar records poor comparables.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public 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 broader categories should be verified against the individual work before appraisal conclusions are drawn.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125030446
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wood_(artist)
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/tom-wood/