# Walter Darby Bannard artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Movements: Abstract art
- Common media: Painting

## About Walter Darby Bannard

Walter Darby Bannard (1934–2016) was an American abstract painter and a professor of art and art history at the University of Miami. Public authority records identify him consistently under his full name, while museum and bibliographic profiles help distinguish him from similarly named people. The available source pack supports placing his work broadly within American abstract painting, but it does not provide enough detail to assign narrower movements, named series, recurring subjects, or career phases with confidence. Collectors may encounter Bannard through paintings offered under his name and through artist-specific auction records. Because the collected evidence is stronger for identity than for a detailed artistic chronology, individual works should be assessed from their own catalog information and compared with genuinely relevant auction results. Additional museum, archival, or catalogue research would be needed to describe specific bodies of work or changes in his practice responsibly.

## Common works and media

The available biographical evidence describes Bannard as an abstract painter, making paintings the only work type that can be named confidently from this source pack. The collected material does not establish specific supports, techniques, print editions, sculptures, recurring subjects, named series, or distinct periods. Auction works should therefore be classified from their individual lot records rather than inferred from the artist’s name alone.

## Market and appraisal context

The supplied input reports 190 auction records indexed for Walter Darby Bannard, indicating that public comparables may be available. The collected pack, however, does not include lot descriptions, condition reports, provenance, dimensions, work dates, realized prices, or major-auction-house commentary. No price range or market trend can therefore be stated responsibly from this evidence alone. An appraisal should first confirm that a work is correctly attributed to Bannard and then examine genuinely comparable records with adequate catalog information. Any realized price should be interpreted in relation to its particular lot and sale date rather than treated as a universal value for the artist’s work.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with indexed auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7964647
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500018212
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/137946155
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/322
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Darby_Bannard
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/walter-darby-bannard/