An original Robert Wood landscape could fetch anywhere between $500 and $40,000. The latter figure is the record price a Robert Wood original has gone for at auction according to the appraisal website Ask Art, with his paintings estimated to fetch an average value of approximately $10,000.
Now although an original signed Robert Wood painting is a highly collectible and valuable item, there are countless reproduction prints made of his work that although just as aesthetically pleasing have nowhere near the same monetary value, and to art collectors are literally worthless.
Ironically, it appears that it is the popularity of these relatively worthless reproductions that were the catalyst in making Wood an extremely wealthy man, and that his royalties stood at a mere few cents per print is testament to how fashionable owning a Robert Wood landscape was. In the meantime the value of his original works sky rocketed and became highly sought after. Art prints from this artist today usually range between an estimated $20 to $60 to buy depending on the size and subject of the painting.
It was at the tender age of 21 that English born Robert William Wood left his home in Dover, England and emigrated to North America, with his first stop in Illinois. In between his arrival in 1910 and his death in 1979 at the ripe old age of 90, Robert Wood had traveled the length and breadth of the United States. It was almost as though the artist wanted to visit every state, staying for short spells in Kansas, Missouri and Oregon and settling for longer periods in Texas, New York and California, with the rugged vistas of Texas inspiring a good body of the young artist's work.
Robert Wood's paintings of the unspoiled backdrop of America hold a very simple and traditional appeal, which has found favor among art lovers from the 1920s to the present day.
Now although an original signed Robert Wood painting is a highly collectible and valuable item, there are countless reproduction prints made of his work that although just as aesthetically pleasing have nowhere near the same monetary value, and to art collectors are literally worthless.
Ironically, it appears that it is the popularity of these relatively worthless reproductions that were the catalyst in making Wood an extremely wealthy man, and that his royalties stood at a mere few cents per print is testament to how fashionable owning a Robert Wood landscape was. In the meantime the value of his original works sky rocketed and became highly sought after. Art prints from this artist today usually range between an estimated $20 to $60 to buy depending on the size and subject of the painting.
It was at the tender age of 21 that English born Robert William Wood left his home in Dover, England and emigrated to North America, with his first stop in Illinois. In between his arrival in 1910 and his death in 1979 at the ripe old age of 90, Robert Wood had traveled the length and breadth of the United States. It was almost as though the artist wanted to visit every state, staying for short spells in Kansas, Missouri and Oregon and settling for longer periods in Texas, New York and California, with the rugged vistas of Texas inspiring a good body of the young artist's work.
Robert Wood's paintings of the unspoiled backdrop of America hold a very simple and traditional appeal, which has found favor among art lovers from the 1920s to the present day.
