# William Arthur Winter artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/william-arthur-winter/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:30:17.354Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Canadian
- Common media: Painting, Works on paper and prints, Sculpture and mixed media, Decorative art and editions

## Portrait

![William Arthur Winter](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/William_A._Winter_and_his_painting%2C_%22Kids_on_the_Curb%22%2C_Ontario_Society_of_Artists%27_76th_Annual_Exhibition_%28I0010363%29.tif/lossy-page1-1280px-William_A._Winter_and_his_painting%2C_%22Kids_on_the_Curb%22%2C_Ontario_Society_of_Artists%27_76th_Annual_Exhibition_%28I0010363%29.tif.jpg)
All images from the Ontario Society of Artists fonds were uploaded as part of the Archives of Ontario’s GLAM Wiki project. · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_A._Winter_and_his_painting,_%22Kids_on_the_Curb%22,_Ontario_Society_of_Artists%27_76th_Annual_Exhibition_(I0010363).tif

## About William Arthur Winter

William Arthur Winter, also documented as William A. Winter and William Winter, was a Canadian artist who lived from 1909 to 1996. A public-domain archival photograph identifies him beside his painting “Kids on the Curb” at the Ontario Society of Artists’ 76th Annual Exhibition, providing useful evidence of both his identity and his participation in an established Canadian exhibition setting. The collected sources do not identify a particular movement or school, so one should not be assigned without stronger museum or scholarly documentation. Collectors encounter Winter principally through paintings and through a substantial but broadly classified body of public auction listings. Appraisily’s current artist index contains 181 matched records dated from 2005 through 2025, including 130 records with reported prices. Because the available identity material is limited and the artist shares a shortened name with unrelated people, individual works should be matched through signatures, inscriptions, provenance, subject, medium, and other object-specific evidence.

## Common works and media

The strongest collected evidence documents Winter as a painter. Appraisily’s auction index also groups matched listings under fine art and paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions. These are broad market classifications, not a verified catalogue of his oeuvre, so the medium and authorship of any individual object should be established from the work itself and its supporting records.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin with genuinely comparable works rather than the artist-wide median alone. Relevant comparisons align the medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, restoration history, signature or inscriptions, edition information, provenance, exhibition history, catalogue references, and confidence of attribution. Appraisily’s matched public records currently span 2005–2025, with reported results ranging from $80 to $4,800 and a displayed median near $600. Those figures describe the collected auction dataset, not a guaranteed value for another object. Fees may be reported differently between auction houses, while private transactions, unsold lots, incomplete feeds, and revised attributions may be absent. Authentication and a direct condition assessment remain essential before drawing a valuation conclusion.

## 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. Dataset coverage may be incomplete and does not replace authentication, condition review, or a qualified appraisal.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110137507
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_A._Winter_and_his_painting,_%22Kids_on_the_Curb%22,_Ontario_Society_of_Artists%27_76th_Annual_Exhibition_(I0010363).tif
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/william-arthur-winter/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Winter_(British_Army_officer)