Nancy Graves

American · 1939–1995 · Painter, Printmaker

Nancy Graves was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and filmmaker known for her focus on natural phenomena like camels or maps of the Moon. Her works are included in… (Wikipedia)

Own a work by Nancy Graves? Get a free auction estimate →

50lots offered2009–2026years recorded91%sold (39)$1.3kSign up free to seemedian price

Record prices

  1. Nancy Graves, #2 Camouflage Series, 1971, acrylic on canvas#2 Camouflage SeriesRago Auctions · $47,880≈ £37,574≈ €45,047Sign up to see
  2. Nancy Graves, Circumfoliate, 1983, bronze with polychrome patinaCircumfoliateBonhams · $40,960≈ £30,522≈ €35,313Sign up to see
  3. Nancy Graves, Drinking His Sighs, 1992, cast aluminum and bronze, etched magnesium plate, epoxy coated nylon, brassDrinking His SighsRago Auctions · $33,280≈ £25,043≈ €29,244Sign up to see

Nancy Graves’s highest prices recorded at auction, ranked in US dollars at each sale-date exchange rate and shown in the currency of the sale (with the buyer’s premium where the house publishes it).

Nancy Graves was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and filmmaker known for her focus on natural phenomena like camels or maps of the Moon. Her works are included in many public collections, including those of the National Gallery of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Gallery of Australia (Canberra), the Des Moines Art Center, Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and the Museum of Fine Arts. When Graves was just 29, she was given a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. At the time she was the youngest artist, and fifth woman to achieve this honor.

Excerpt from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born 1939, PittsfieldDied 1995, New York CityOccupation Painter, Printmaker, Sculptor, DraughtsmanWikidata Q541831 ↗ULAN 500001464 ↗

In the collections of

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

Museum representation from open data (Wikidata, museum collection datasets); links go to the museum or its collection record.

postminimalism

Also known as Nancy Stevenson Graves

Artist record compiled from: Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By), National Gallery of Art open data (CC0), Art Institute of Chicago API (CC0), The Met Open Access (CC0), MoMA collection data (CC0). See data sources & attribution.

Related artists — American, born 1914–1964

More American artists of the same period