John Kenneth Esler: career timeline

Canadian · b. 1933 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 63 of 65 lots (97% 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.

John Kenneth Esler: 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
1960s	14	13	$156Sign up	Etching
1970s	33	24	$144Sign up	Etching
1980s	15	13	$154Sign up	Etching
1990s	1	1	$2.2kSign up	Acrylic

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1960s 14 works

Sold: 13 of 14
Median: $156Sign up
Average: $178Sign up
Typical size: 17 × 19 in (43 × 48 cm)
Mediums: Etching (7), Woodcut / linocut (4), Mixed media (1)
Subjects: Sunsets & night (2)

1964 Warrior #A.P.$203Sign up
1964 Owl #18/25$161Sign up
1965 Freeway and the Cherry Orchard No. 1 #?/25$83Sign up
1965 Dark Nights and Sunny Days No. 3 #10/12$186Sign up
1965 Mr. Winter's Little Boxes #5/19$136Sign up
1965 Mr. Winter's Little Boxes #5/19Unsold
1966 Saturday Night in a Prairie Town #12/20$211Sign up
1967 Mr. & Mrs. Warrior$293Sign up
1968 Dark Nights and Sunny Days 2 #12/18$156Sign up
1968 Day Approaching Night No. 2 #21/25$367Sign up
1969 Blue Intrusion #A/P$155Sign up
1969 West Cosmos 1 #20/39$113Sign up

Show 2 more (1960s)

1969 September 2 #2/15$126Sign up
1969 Mandala [Diary of the Lost Hunter] #6/100$126Sign up

1970s 33 works

Sold: 24 of 33
Median: $144Sign up
Average: $161Sign up
Typical size: 20.5 × 17.5 in (53 × 44 cm)
Mediums: Etching (32), Other (1)
Subjects: Cattle & animals (2), Landscapes (2), Sunsets & night (2)

1970 The White Box [Melodrama IV] #1/50$125Sign up
1971 Boleos #31/51$160Sign up
1971 Lost Flag #13/35$112Sign up
1971 Confusion #6/35Unsold
1972 Some Win, Some Lose #11/50$137Sign up
1972 Red Dianna #13/50$126Sign up
1973 Calgary Horse #3 #24/50$167Sign up
1974 Crosswinds [Melodrama] I #4/50$155Sign up
1974 Calgary Horse #4 #1/75$155Sign up
1974 Landscape with Table #2 #3/50Unsold
1974 Cross Winds - Melodrama I #4/50Unsold
1975 Wind Spirit #49/50$88Sign up

Show 12 more (1970s)

1976 The Last Flight #22/50$213Sign up
1976 Landscape with Chair #15/50$117Sign up
1976 Night Flight #Sample Proof$131Sign up
1976 The Last Flight #31/50$150Sign up
1976 The Shadow of Summer #36/50$78Sign up
1977 Tents [Ten Series IV] #A.P.Unsold
1978 Signals #19/50$153Sign up
1978 To Climb a Mountain [Tack Board I] #73/100$96Sign up
1978 The Last Waltz #47/75Unsold
1979 The Flame [Melodrama V] #32/50$183Sign up
1979 Kananaskis II #A.P$103Sign up
1979 Time Pass II #46/75$296Sign up

…and 9 more works from this group in the full results list.

1980s 15 works

Sold: 13 of 15
Median: $154Sign up
Average: $232Sign up
Typical size: 23.5 × 18 in (60 × 46 cm)
Mediums: Etching (11), Acrylic (2), Drawing (1)
Subjects: Landscapes (2), Sunsets & night (1)

1980 Kananaskis II #A.P.$267Sign up
1980 Buffalo Jump #77/100$102Sign up
1980 Untitled$76Sign up
1980 Kananaskis #2 #A.P.Unsold
1981 Blue Diana II #68/75$153Sign up
1981 Buffalo Jump #3/100$193Sign up
1981 Looking Up #130/150$129Sign up
1981 The Devil's Thumb [Kananakis III] #14/75$387Sign up
1982 Winter Garden #5/50$88Sign up
1982 Night Fire #59/75$119Sign up
1982 Close-Up #68/75Unsold
1984 Hillside$256Sign up

Show 3 more (1980s)

1984 Untitled - Prairie Spring$379Sign up
1984 Untitled - Fence on the Hill$707Sign up
1989 Fields II [State II] #13/50$154Sign up

1990s 1 work

Sold: 1 of 1
Median: $2.2kSign up
Average: $2.2kSign up
Typical size: 32 × 35.5 in (81 × 91 cm)
Mediums: Acrylic (1)
Subjects: —

1993 Bearspaw Remembered$2.2kSign up

Creation date not recorded

2 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 2020s 2 works

Sold: 2 of 2
Median: $341Sign up
Average: $341Sign up
Typical size: 14.5 × 19.5 in (36 × 49 cm)
Mediums: Etching (1), Screenprint (1)
Subjects: —

sold 2020 Toy Monument #11/15$174Sign up
sold 2025 Baroque Lament [First State] #3/15$508Sign 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 John Kenneth Esler auction results →