Horace Bristol: career timeline

American · 1908–1997 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 16 of 28 lots (57% of works) have a usable creation date; the others are listed at the end by the decade they were sold. Each work is shown once, even when it sold more than once.

Horace Bristol: works at auction by decade the work was made. Each work counted once; medians use sold works only, in US dollars.

Decade made	Works	Sold	Median sold price	Main medium
1930s	4	2	$567Sign up	Photograph
1940s	12	11	$10kSign up	Photograph

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1930s 4 works

Sold: 2 of 4
Median: $567Sign up
Average: $567Sign up
Typical size: 12 × 9.5 in (30 × 25 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (3), Other (1)
Subjects: Flowers & still life (1)

c. 1932 Patrons' Edition Portfolio, including 'Rescued Airmen Smoking in PBY (Sitting in Blister of 'Dumbo' Rescue Plane)'Unsold
1934 Untitled (Golfing Shoes)$63Sign up
1938 Rose of Sharon #2 (from the Grapes of Wrath series)$1.1kSign up
c. 1938 from The Grapes of Wrath SeriesUnsold

1940s 12 works

Sold: 11 of 12
Median: $10kSign up
Average: $9.8kSign up
Typical size: 10 × 10 in (26 × 25 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (12)
Subjects: —

1944 PBY Blister Gunner, Rescue at Rabaul$20.6kSign up
1944 PBY Blister Gunner, Rescue at Rabaul$11.4kSign up
1944 PBY Blister Gunner$10kSign up
1944 Selected Images of PBY Blister Gunner$25.4kSign up
1944 PBY Blister Gunner, Rescue at Rabaul$17.5kSign up
1944 PBY Blister Gunner, Rescue at Rabaul$10.6kSign up
1944 PBY Blister Gunner, Rescue at RabauUnsold
1944 PBY Blister Gunner, Rescue at Rabaul$6.9kSign up
1945 Captain Edward Steichen$630Sign up
1945 Topping-Off Gas Tank on Patrol Plane$1kSign up
1946 Shinto Shrine Melee, New Year's Day, Japan$3.8kSign up
1949 Burmese Wearing Camisole$189Sign up

Creation date not recorded

12 works have no cataloged or signed date. They are grouped here by the decade they were last sold, which says nothing about when they were made.

Undated, sold in the 2010s 1 work

Sold: 1 of 1
Median: $8.8kSign up
Average: $8.8kSign up
Typical size: —
Mediums: Photograph (1)
Subjects: Sea & coast (1)

sold 2013 Rescue at Sea, PBY Blister Gunner$8.8kSign up

Undated, sold in the 2020s 11 works

Sold: 11 of 11
Median: $756Sign up
Average: $867Sign up
Typical size: 12 × 12 in (30 × 30 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (11)
Subjects: Markets & villages (1), Landscapes (1), Boats (1)

sold 2020 Street Bridge, Pattern in Steel and Shadows, Los Angeles, California$1.3kSign up
sold 2020 Pattern Tunnel Entrance$1.4kSign up
sold 2021 Shinto Shrine Melee$1.8kSign up
sold 2023 Clover Field, Santa Monica$756Sign up
sold 2023 Untitled (Industrial Building)$1kSign up
sold 2023 Untitled$630Sign up

Show 5 more (2020s)

sold 2023 Torpedo Planes in Formation$1.2kSign up
sold 2023 Diving Girls of Hatsushima: Putting on Masks in Row Boat$189Sign up
sold 2023 Panorama of Invasion Fleet off the Coast of Morocco$655Sign up
sold 2023 Rose of Sharon$524Sign up
sold 2026 Four works$133Sign up

Medians and averages count sold works only (each work's most recent sale), in US dollars at the sale-date rate. Works cataloged as “attributed to”, “circle of” or similar are left out. All Horace Bristol auction results →