Worden Day Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Worden Day Art Value Price Guide

Feb. 22, 2025
Worden Day, American (1912 - 1986), Sierra Series, ink on paper collage, 9"H x 8 3/4"W(sight), 19 1/2"H x 18 3/4"W(frame)
Est: $200 - $400
Worden Day American, (1912 - 1986) Sierra Series ink on paper collage Signed lower right. Biography from the Archives of askART: Painter, print maker, sculptor Worden Day was born in 1912 in Columbus, Ohio. She earned her B.A. degree from Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Richmond, Virginia in 1934 at the unusually young age of eighteen. She then went to New York City where she studied with a variety of artists, some very well known, including German Expressionist social critic George Grosz, Mexican muralist Jean Charlot, and Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann at his school. She also studied at the New School of Social Research and with Maurice Sterne and Emilio Amero, the latter with Charlot at the Florence Crane School. Other teachers were Will Barnet, Vaclav Vytlacil and Harry Sternberg at the Art Students League. Day later worked at printmaker Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17 in 1943. She received a belated M.A. degree in 1966 from New York University at the age of fifty. From 1955 to 1956, she was Instructor of Design at Pratt Institute, and from 1961 to 1966, taught at the New School of Social Research. From 1961 to 1969, she taught at the Art Students League. By the late 1960s, Day, an abstractionist, had given up painting in favor of sculpture. In 1986, she was given a retrospective exhibition of forty years of her work by the New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, but tragically she died of cancer before the exhibition opened. Day taught at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, in 1949, New School for Social Research, New York City, 1961 to 1966, and the Art Students League, New York City, 1966 to 1970. She won two Guggenheim Foundation fellowships one after the other in 1952 and 1953. Source: Jules and Nancy Heller, North American Women Artists Peter Hastings Falk, Who Was Who in American Art
Ripley Auctions
Jul. 23, 2022
Worden Day, Ohio, New Jersey (1912-1986), The Constant Dream of Mrs. Poole, 1946, oil on canvas, 40 1/4"H x 24 7/8"W, 41 1/4"H x 46"W (frame)
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
Worden Day Ohio, New Jersey, (1912-1986) The Constant Dream of Mrs. Poole, 1946 oil on canvas signed and dated lower right. 1/2 inch flake to top layer of paint in upper center of painting exposing white paint underneath. Approximately three chips in impasto areas upper left outermost edge of stretcher. Craquelure throughout. Biography from the Archives of AskArt: Painter, print maker, sculptor Worden Day was born in 1912 in Columbus, Ohio. She earned her B.A. degree from Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Richmond, Virginia in 1934 at the unusually young age of eighteen. She then went to New York City where she studied with a variety of artists, some very well known, including German Expressionist social critic George Grosz, Mexican muralist Jean Charlot, and Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann at his school. She also studied at the New School of Social Research and with Maurice Sterne and Emilio Amero, the latter with Charlot at the Florence Crane School. Other teachers were Will Barnet, Vaclav Vytlacil and Harry Sternberg at the Art Students League. Day later worked at printmaker Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17 in 1943. She received a belated M.A. degree in 1966 from New York University at the age of fifty. From 1955 to 1956, she was Instructor of Design at Pratt Institute, and from 1961 to 1966, taught at the New School of Social Research. From 1961 to 1969, she taught at the Art Students League. By the late 1960s, Day, an abstractionist, had given up painting in favor of sculpture. In 1986, she was given a retrospective exhibition of forty years of her work by the New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, but tragically she died of cancer before the exhibition opened. Day taught at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, in 1949, New School for Social Research, New York City, 1961 to 1966, and the Art Students League, New York City, 1966 to 1970. She won two Guggenheim Foundation fellowships one after the other in 1952 and 1953. Source: Jules and Nancy Heller, North American Women Artists Peter Hastings Falk, Who Was Who in American Art
Ripley Auctions
Jan. 20, 2021
Worden Day, Ink Drawing, "Prismatic Presences"
Est: $300 - $500
(American, 1912-1986) signed and titled l.r. Sight size: 17"h x 30-1/4"w Overall: 26-3/4"h x 38-3/4"w
Nye & Company
Sep. 30, 2020
2 PRINTS; WORDEN DAY& ANDRE MASSON
Est: $200 - $300
2 Prints, Worden Day (1916-1986), "Manala VII", Woodcut, 3/200, signed and Andre Masson (1896-1987) "Calligraphy", signed in pencil (STES8381/2)(WT)
Litchfield Auctions
Oct. 29, 2019
EDITH WORDEN DAY (AMERICAN 1916-1986)
Est: £400 - £600
The Property of a Connoisseur, London EDITH WORDEN DAY (AMERICAN 1916-1986) The lone pedestrian, New Canaan, Conn., USA Signed and dated E Worden Day 15/12/42 (lower right) Oil on canvas 63.5 x 76.5cm (25 x 30 1/4in) Exhibited: Annual Regional Exhibition: Virginia Intermont College, Bristol, Virginia
Chiswick Auctions
Jun. 30, 2018
Worden Day, (American, 1912-1986), Dancers, oil on canvas, 45 3/4"H x 51 1/4"W (sight), 49"H x 54 1/4"W (frame)
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
Worden Day (American, 1912-1986) Dancers oil on canvas signed and titled verso. 45 3/4"H x 51 1/4"W (sight), 49"H x 54 1/4"W (frame)
Ripley Auctions
May. 13, 2017
Worden Day woodcut
Est: $300 - $500
Worden Day- ''Mandala VII''- woodcut in colors on black paper, c. 1964, signed, titled and numbered 16/200 in white ink, mat burn, minor handling creases in bottom margin. 18 1/2 x 23 1/4''
Rachel Davis Fine Arts
Feb. 11, 2017
WORDEN DAY (American, 1912-1986). NOW FLOWING, signed and numbered 22/55 in pencil lower margin. Color woodblock print.
Est: $200 - $300
WORDEN DAY (American, 1912-1986). NOW FLOWING, signed and numbered 22/55 in pencil lower margin. Color woodblock print - Framed, image: 9 in. x 7 in.
Sloans & Kenyon
Feb. 11, 2017
WORDEN DAY (American, 1912-1986). BLESSINGS TO THEE, color woodblock print heightened.
Est: $200 - $300
WORDEN DAY (American, 1912-1986). BLESSINGS TO THEE, color woodblock print heightened - Framed, image: 16 in. x 6 in.
Sloans & Kenyon
Feb. 11, 2017
WORDEN DAY (American, 1912-1986). GREETINGS GLORIA, signed and titled in pencil lower margin. Color woodblock print with mixed media.
Est: $200 - $300
WORDEN DAY (American, 1912-1986). GREETINGS GLORIA, signed and titled in pencil lower margin. Color woodblock print with mixed media - Framed, image: 9 1/2 in. x 8 in.
Sloans & Kenyon
May. 19, 2013
WORDEN DAY (1912 - 1986)
Est: $400 - $600
1964 signed lower right in white ink. 5-color woodcut printed black Japanese Moriki paper, ed. 15/200. Published by: IGAS (International Graphic Arts Society, Inc.) Dimensions: framed H 25" x W 29.5"
Westport Auction
Apr. 07, 2013
WORDEN DAY (American, 1916-1986) Painting
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
WORDEN DAY (American, Virginia, 1916-1986). 20th C. The Miner. Oil on linen. David Porter Gallery label reads "Worden Day THE MINER Oil on Canvas." (David Porter Gallery WDC 1942-1945). Painting 40" x 28". Frame 43" x 31". In good condition, patch repair upper right corner with retouch 2" x 3", inpainting lower left, light craquelure. Porter exhibited Day's work at the David Porter Gallery, 916 G Place, N. W. Washington, D.C. in the 1940's along with such vanguard artists as Baziotes, Bourgeois, de Kooning, Gottlieb, Motherwell, Nevelson, Pollock, Pousette-Dart, Rothko and other abstract expressionists. A scanned photograph of David Porter in his Wainscott, New York studio on the east end of Long Island is included in the images. From AskArt: "Painter, print maker, sculptor Worden Day was born in 1916 in Columbus, Ohio. She earned her B.A. degree from Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Richmond, Virginia in 1934 at the unusually young age of eighteen. She then went to New York City where she studied with a variety of artists, some very well known, including German Expressionist social critic George Grosz, Mexican muralist Jean Charlot, and Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann at his school. She also studied at the New School of Social Research and with Maurice Sterne and Emilio Amero, the latter with Charlot at the Florence Crane School. Other teachers were Will Barnet, Vaclav Vytlacil and Harry Sternberg at the Art Students League. Day later worked at printmaker Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17 in 1943. She received a belated M.A. degree in 1966 from New York University at the age of fifty. From 1955 to 1956, she was Instructor of Design at Pratt Institute, and from 1961 to 1966, taught at the New School of Social Research. From 1961 to 1969, she taught at the Art Students League. By the late 1960s, Day, an abstractionist, had given up painting in favor of sculpture. In 1986, she was given a retrospective exhibition of forty years of her work by the New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, but tragically she died of cancer before the exhibition opened. Day taught at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, in 1949, New School for Social Research, New York City, 1961 to 1966, and the Art Students League, New York City, 1966 to 1970. She won two Guggenheim Foundation fellowships one after the other in 1952 and 1953."
Myers Fine Art
Dec. 01, 2012
Worden Day, "Train Riders," 1939, gouache
Est: $800 - $1,200
Worden Day (American, 1916-1986) "Train Riders," 1939, gouache, 14.5" x 10.5", signed and dated upper right, framed
Toomey & Co. Auctioneers
Aug. 31, 2011
Worden Day (1916-1986) Mandala VII, Woodcut,
Est: $60 - $80
Worden Day (1916-1986) Mandala VII, Woodcut, Numbered 113/200, signed lower right. h:18.50 w:23.50 in.
Gray's Auctioneers
Aug. 14, 2011
ESTHER WORDEN DAY, OIL ON PAPER, 14" X 21","
Est: $150 - $250
ESTHER WORDEN DAY, OIL ON PAPER, 14" X 21"," ABSTRACT: Depicts magic fisherman.
DuMouchelles
Jul. 28, 2011
Worden Day (1916-1986) Mandala VII, Woodcut,
Est: $80 - $120
Worden Day (1916-1986) Mandala VII, Woodcut, Numbered 113/200, signed lower right. h:18.50 w:23.50 in.
Gray's Auctioneers
Jun. 01, 2003
Worden Day (1916-1986)
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Arcana I USA, 1955
Wright
Sep. 19, 2002
WORDEN DAY
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Two lithographs. The Canal, 1943. 252x356 mm; 10x14 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 1 0/12 in pencil, lower margin * Two Bridges, 1943. 240x370 mm; 9 1/2x14 5/8 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 2/12 in pencil, lower margin. Both sperb, dark impressions of these scarce, early prints.
Swann Auction Galleries