Joan Snyder: career timeline

American · b. 1940 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 34 of 37 lots (92% 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.

Joan Snyder: 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
1970s	4	3	$2.8kSign up	Drawing
1980s	16	12	$3.2kSign up	Oil
1990s	6	6	$994Sign up	Other
2000s	6	5	$12.9kSign up	Acrylic
2020s	2	2	$108kSign up	Oil

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1970s 4 works

Sold: 3 of 4
Median: $2.8kSign up
Average: $2.6kSign up
Typical size: 20 × 27 in (51 × 68 cm)
Mediums: Drawing (3), Print (other) (1)
Subjects: —

1972 4 Studies$2.1kSign up
1972 Untitled$3kSign up
1972 Dear CraigUnsold
c. 1978 Untitled$2.8kSign up

1980s 16 works

Sold: 12 of 16
Median: $3.2kSign up
Average: $14.9kSign up
Typical size: 25 × 37 in (64 × 94 cm)
Mediums: Oil (6), Lithograph (5), Woodcut / linocut (2)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (2), Sunsets & night (2)

1980 FMSWNL$315Sign up
1980 Study for Fmswnl V$160Sign up
1980 Study for Fmswnl VUnsold
1980 Study for Fmswnl VUnsold
1981 Untitled$4.1kSign up
1981 Primitive People$4.1kSign up
1981 Study for Symphony, for A.D. (see S. 19.2)$1.4kSign up
1982 Sleeping Beauty$88.9kSign up
1982 Sleeping Beauty$10kSign up
1983 Stick FigureUnsold
c. 1983 Mommy Why? (S. 21)$635Sign up
1983 House I$17.8kSign up

Show 4 more (1980s)

c. 1983 Things have Tears and We Know Suffering$693Sign up
1985 To Transcend/The Moon$47.9kSign up
1985 To Transcend/ The MoonUnsold
1988 Boy in Africa$2.3kSign up

1990s 6 works

Sold: 6 of 6
Median: $994Sign up
Average: $1.6kSign up
Typical size: 26 × 24 in (66 × 61 cm)
Mediums: Other (3), Print (other) (1), Woodcut / linocut (1)
Subjects: Landscapes (1)

1991 Brooklyn Beanfield$4.1kSign up
1996 Another Version of Cherry Fall (S. 52)$2.5kSign up
1998 Requiem, Let Them Rest, 1998$488Sign up
1998 Requiem, Let Them Rest, 1998$358Sign up
1998 Requiem/Let Them Rest$469Sign up
1999 Cherry Tree Series II$1.5kSign up

2000s 6 works

Sold: 5 of 6
Median: $12.9kSign up
Average: $16.7kSign up
Typical size: 20 × 22.5 in (51 × 57 cm)
Mediums: Acrylic (3), Oil (1), Print (other) (1)
Subjects: —

2003 All the way$19.1kSign up
c. 2005 Healing My Mother$12.9kSign up
2006 Oasis$2.4kSign up
2006 OasisResult not published
2006 My Song$40.3kSign up
2006 MY SONG$8.8kSign up

2020s 2 works

Sold: 2 of 2
Median: $108kSign up
Average: $108kSign up
Typical size: 36.5 × 54 in (93 × 138 cm)
Mediums: Oil (1), Aquatint (1)
Subjects: Rivers & marshes (1)

2020 OH Elena$216kSign up
2021 Black Lake Redux$889Sign up

Creation date not recorded

3 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 2 works

Sold: 2 of 2
Median: $4.4kSign up
Average: $4.4kSign up
Typical size: —
Mediums: Other (2)
Subjects: Sunsets & night (1)

sold 2016 Moon/Black Lines$4.7kSign up
sold 2016 Still/For You$4.1kSign up

Undated, sold in the 2020s 1 work

Sold: 0 of 1
Median: —
Average: —
Typical size: 26 × 20 in (66 × 51 cm)
Mediums: Print (other) (1)
Subjects: —

sold 2022 Requiem, Let Them RestResult not published

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 Joan Snyder auction results →