# Tony Fitzpatrick artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/tony-fitzpatrick/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:32:24.135Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Printmaking, Mixed-media collage, Posters

## Portrait

![Tony Fitzpatrick](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/84/Tony_Fitzpatrick_in_2008.jpg)
Tony Fitzpatrick (artist) · see-source-page
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Fitzpatrick_(artist)

## About Tony Fitzpatrick

Tony Fitzpatrick (1958–2025) was an American multidisciplinary artist, poet, and actor whose work drew heavily on Chicago and the wider Chicagoland region. He became particularly associated with printmaking and mixed-media collage while also working across literary and published formats. Library authority records connect him with authored projects including the 2008 volume The Wonder: City of Monsters, City of Ghosts. His official site documents posters as another circulated form of his imagery, and the Museum of Modern Art maintains an institutional artist record for him. Collectors may therefore encounter Fitzpatrick through original prints, collage-based works, published projects, and posters rather than through a single medium alone. These overlapping roles—as visual artist and writer, with a practice rooted in remembered places and city experience—help explain why his work appears across gallery, book, and auction contexts.

## Common works and media

Works encountered in appraisal and auction settings may include prints, mixed-media collages, and posters. Published art-and-poetry projects are also part of Fitzpatrick's documented output. Chicago, the wider Chicagoland region, remembered places, and urban experience provide recurring context for the work, while documented titles and publication relationships can help distinguish one object or group from another.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should begin by identifying whether a Fitzpatrick object is a printmaking-based work, mixed-media collage, poster, or publication-related item, because the collected sources document each of these formats. Exact title and connection to a documented series or book can help establish the appropriate comparison group; The Wonder: City of Monsters, City of Ghosts and named posters on the official site provide useful cataloguing references. Appraisily's input contains 223 auction records, but that count should be treated as a comparison pool rather than evidence that every entry is a distinct or directly comparable work. Comparisons should be limited to records that genuinely align with the object's format and documented identity. This source pack alone does not support a price trend or prediction.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. Each object still requires case-specific review before attribution or valuation conclusions are drawn.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7822347
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/33645029/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/160175720
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/7058
- Tony Fitzpatrick: http://www.tonyfitzpatrick.co/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Fitzpatrick_(artist)
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500331982
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/tony-fitzpatrick/