Joel Sternfeld: career timeline
American · b. 1944 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 37 of 42 lots (88% 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.
| Decade made | Works | Sold | Median sold price | Main medium |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 17 | 15 | $18.8kSign up | Photograph |
| 1980s | 9 | 5 | $3.8kSign up | Photograph |
| 1990s | 3 | 2 | $6.1kSign up | Photograph |
| 2000s | 6 | 5 | $7.6kSign up | Photograph |
| 2010s | 1 | 1 | $630Sign up | Photograph |
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1970s 17 works
- Sold
- 15 of 17
- Median
- $18.8kSign up
- Average
- $18.5kSign up
- Typical size
- 16 × 20 in (41 × 51 cm)
- Mediums
- Photograph (17)
- Subjects
- Rivers & marshes (2)
1978 McLean, Virginia, December 4$19.1kSign up
1978 McLean, Virginia, December$23.7kSign up
1978 McLean, Virginia$16.3kSign up
1978 McLean, Virginia, December 4$27.5kSign up
1978 McLean Virginia, December 4$13.8kSign up
1978 McLean, Virginia, December 4$47.3kSign up
1978 McLean, Virginia, December 4, 1978$22.1kSign up
1979 'Exhausted Renegade Elephant, Woodland, Washington, June 1979'Unsold
1979 Near Lake Powell, Arizona$26.7kSign up
1979 'Rustic Canyon, Santa Monica, California'$3.8kSign up
1979 After The Flash Flood, Rancho Mirage, California, July$5.7kSign up
1979 Exhausted Renegade Elephant, Woodland, Washington, June$20kSign up
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1980s 9 works
- Sold
- 5 of 9
- Median
- $3.8kSign up
- Average
- $3.9kSign up
- Typical size
- 22 × 27.5 in (56 × 70 cm)
- Mediums
- Photograph (9)
- Subjects
- Figures & portraits (1)
1980 After a Tornado, Grande Isle, Nebraska, JuneUnsold
1980 Wet 'n Wild Aquatic Theme Park, Orlando, Florida, SeptemberUnsold
1980 Manville Corporation World Headquarters, Littleton, Colorado, October$3.8kSign up
1980 Near Vail, Colorado, October 1980Unsold · sold 2×
1982 The Bronx, New York (Sculpture by John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres), November$8.9kSign up
1983 Joseph, Utah, June 1983$819Sign up
1984 A Blind Man in His Garden, Homer, Alaska, JulyUnsold
1989 The Claudian Aqueduct, Rome (from the Campagna Romana: The Countryside of Ancient Rome series)$1.3kSign up
1989 Via Appia Nuova, Statuario, Rome, August$4.8kSign up
1990s 3 works
2000s 6 works
- Sold
- 5 of 6
- Median
- $7.6kSign up
- Average
- $9kSign up
- Typical size
- 38.5 × 49 in (98 × 125 cm)
- Mediums
- Photograph (6)
- Subjects
- Sunsets & night (2), Markets & villages (1), Harbours & ports (1)
2000 Looking South on a May Evening (the Starrett-Lehigh Building)$7.6kSign up
2000 Looking West on 29th Street on a September Evening$5.7kSign up
2000 Looking Northwest from 29th Street, June 2000Unsold
2000 A Woman Working at the Supreme Bean, Port Orchard, Washington, August$6kSign up
2006 The East Meadows, Northampton, Massachusetts$12kSign up
2007 The East Meadows, Northampton, Massachusetts, February 28$13.8kSign up
2010s 1 work
Creation date not recorded
5 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 3 works
- Sold
- 3 of 3
- Median
- $11.8kSign up
- Average
- $8.6kSign up
- Typical size
- 13.5 × 17 in (34 × 43 cm)
- Mediums
- Photograph (2), Other (1)
- Subjects
- —
sold 2012 McLean, Virginia, December 4$12.5kSign up
sold 2013 Exhausted renegade elephant, Woodland, Washington$11.8kSign up
sold 2017 Troutdale$1.4kSign up
Undated, sold in the 2020s 2 works
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 Joel Sternfeld auction results →