Norman Miller Thomas Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Norman Miller Thomas Art Value Price Guide

Aug. 21, 2021
NORMAN MILLET THOMAS ENGRAVING OF WOLF
Est: $50 - $75
Nice engraving. Needs to be reset in the frame. 16.5" by 19.5" framed. Norman Millet Thomas was known for modernist animal and abstract figure painting, murals, etching, and sculpture. There are few US artists from the twentieth century whose artistic diversity and breadth of life experience can rival that of Norman Thomas. His accomplishments ranged from Pulitzer Scholarship, to combat artist during World War II, publication in Life magazine, sculptor for the US Coast Guard War Memorial, producer of a 1961 film banned by the Mexican Government, and influential member of Studio 88 in California. His friends and circle included Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and David Siqueiros. Norman Millet Thomas was drawn to work with murals from early in his life, and in 1938 he was awarded a Pulitzer traveling scholarship of $1,500. for a mural of a lobster fisherman on the back shore of Long Island, Maine. Thomas graduated from Portland High School in 1933, studied art at the Portland School of Fine Arts, then the National Academy of Design in New York City, and the American Academy in Rome, Italy. He served as a combat artist for the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II. Five wartime paintings by Thomas were published in Life magazine September 6, 1943 under the heading of "Greenland at War". Thomas also sketched the amphibious assaults at Leyte and Luzon in the Philippines, and Iwo Jima, Japan. His sketches of Luzon and particularly of two Coast Guardsmen supporting between them a wounded soldier became the design for the Coast Guard War Memorial. Thomas designed and sculpted the bronze statue for the War Memorial at Battery Park in New York City. The memorial was dedicated in 1955, and a replica was dedicated in Baltimore in 1959. Thomas's murals have embraced a wide range of topics and been put to many uses. He is well known as the artist of the Norbert Capek Mural (http://www.essexuu.org/nmtmural.html ), which was unveiled March 16, 1947. It may have been the use of this media to convey and portray oppression that reinforced Thomas's association with Diego Rivera and David Siqueiros. Thomas's paintings such as Man of War also share much in common with Siqueiros's later paintings. While in Cuernavaca, Mexico in the 1960s and early 1970s Siqueiros and Thomas both experimented with modern paint media. Thomas's paintings also often included a lot of texture. Thomas's later years were spent mostly in Cuernavaca, Mexico. He was a producer of the 1961 film El Brazo Fuerte by Giovanni Korporaal, which was banned in Mexico because it criticized government corruption. Thomas spent time living in Mexico intermittently in the 1950s, 60s, 70s, and 80s. But in the 1950s Thomas shared a studio in Portland, Maine with William T. Wray and Claude Montgomery. Then from about 1965 to 1970 he was in Los Gatos, California, and became part of the group of artists who gathered at the nearby Studio 88 in Campbell. Studio 88 in the late 60's early 70's was also a hangout for artists Duane Armstrong, Steve Sutton, Don Heitkotter and Paul Greenesmith. Thomas was born in 1915 and grew up in Portland, Maine. He married Maryjane Ripley in 1941, and they had a son named Peter. He then lived with his second wife Rebeca Duff de Salinas in Cuernavaca, and they had a daughter named Leonora. He died at Cuernavaca, Mexico on May 11, 1986 at the age of 70, and in keeping with the diversity of his life his ashes were returned to his birthplace of Portland and as befitted Norman Thomas as the mariner they were scattered over Casco Bay.
Davis Brothers Auction
Sep. 13, 2020
Print, Norman Millet Thomas
Est: $400 - $600
Norman Millet Thomas (American, 1915-1986), "Jazz Street Parade - New Orleans," circa 1950, etching, pencil signed lower right, titled in pencil lower center, edition 64/130, image (sight): 7.5"h x 9.5"w, overall (with frame): 15.5"h x 17"w
Clars Auctions
Mar. 05, 2018
Norman Millet Thomas (1915 - 1986) United States - Tanzier
Est: $300 - $400
Norman Millet Thomas was known for modernist animal and abstract figure painting, murals, etching, and sculpture. There are few US artists from the twentieth century whose artistic diversity and breadth of life experience can rival that of Norman Thomas. His accomplishments ranged from Pulitzer Scholarship, to combat artist during World War II, publication in Life magazine, sculptor for the US Coast Guard War Memorial, producer of a 1961 film banned by the Mexican Government, and influential member of Studio 88 in California. His friends and circle included Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and David Siqueiros. Norman Millet Thomas was drawn to work with murals from early in his life, and in 1938 he was awarded a Pulitzer traveling sc
Colville Auctions
Jun. 22, 2016
NORMAN THOMAS AMERICAN TEMPERA ON PAPER SIGNED
Est: $200 - $400
Norman Thomas (American, 1915-1986) Two works of art including a tempera on paper of three standing female nudes and sleeping man. Both signed lower right 'Norman Thomas' Framed nudes measure: 35.75" x 28.75" Provenance: From the original collection of the Maybrook mansion in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. The 20,000 square foot Gothic mansion was originally built on its 67 acre property by liquor baron, real estate developer, and art collector Henry Clay Gibson in 1881. The mansion along with its art and antiques collection was passed on from the Gibson family to John W. Merriam, and then finally to his stepson Robert Lockyer, the current owner.
Kamelot Auctions
Apr. 30, 2016
Norman Millet Thomas, Me, Cal , Mexico (1915-1986)
Est: $250 - $400
Norman Millet Thomas, Me, Cal , Mexico (1915-1986) attributed, watercolor on paper of a landscape with a small inlet in the distance, signed lower right "N Thomas", 20 X28" sight, matted and framed under glass.
The Cobbs
Mar. 22, 2016
NORMA S. THOMAS 4 WATERCOLORS ON PAPER
Est: $100 - $200
Norman Thomas (American, 1915-1986) A collection of four watercolors on paper, unframed. Provenance: From the original collection of the Maybrook mansion in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. The 20,000 square foot Gothic mansion was originally built on its 67 acre property by liquor baron, real estate developer, and art collector Henry Clay Gibson in 1881. The mansion along with its art and antiques collection was passed on from the Gibson family to John W. Merriam, and then finally to his stepson Robert Lockyer, the current owner.
Kamelot Auctions
Mar. 22, 2016
NORMAN THOMAS PORTRAIT OIL ON CANVAS SIGNED
Est: $300 - $500
Norman Thomas (American, 1915 - 1986). Portrait of a seated boy. Oil on canvas, signed lower right "N. Thomas." Provenance: From the original collection of the Maybrook mansion in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. The 20,000 square foot Gothic mansion was originally built on its 67 acre property by liquor baron, real estate developer, and art collector Henry Clay Gibson in 1881. The mansion along with its art and antiques collection was passed on from the Gibson family to John W. Merriam, and then finally to his stepson Robert Lockyer, the current owner.
Kamelot Auctions
Mar. 22, 2016
NORMAN THOMAS DANCERS OIL ON CANVAS AMERICAN
Est: $400 - $800
Norman Thomas (American 1915 - 1986). "Dancers." Oil on canvas, unsigned. Provenance: From the original collection of the Maybrook mansion in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. The 20,000 square foot Gothic mansion was originally built on its 67 acre property by liquor baron, real estate developer, and art collector Henry Clay Gibson in 1881. The mansion along with its art and antiques collection was passed on from the Gibson family to John W. Merriam, and then finally to his stepson Robert Lockyer, the current owner.
Kamelot Auctions
Mar. 22, 2016
NORMAN THOMAS AMERICAN 3 WATERCOLORS ON PAPER
Est: $300 - $500
Norman Thomas (American, 1915-1986) Three watercolors on paper, signed 'N.Thomas' Woman with chicken measuring 31.5" x 24.75" (Framed). Death holds the man measuring 34" x 29.25" (Framed), and a landscape measuring 28" x 34.5" (Framed) Provenance: From the original collection of the Maybrook mansion in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. The 20,000 square foot Gothic mansion was originally built on its 67 acre property by liquor baron, real estate developer, and art collector Henry Clay Gibson in 1881. The mansion along with its art and antiques collection was passed on from the Gibson family to John W. Merriam, and then finally to his stepson Robert Lockyer, the current owner.
Kamelot Auctions
Mar. 22, 2016
NORMAN THOMAS AMERICAN 2 WATERCOLORS ON PAPER
Est: $200 - $400
Norman Thomas (American, 1915-1986) Two watercolors on paper including a dancing couple and a man with limes, signed 'N.Thomas' Framed dancers measure: 34.5" x 27.5" Provenance: From the original collection of the Maybrook mansion in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. The 20,000 square foot Gothic mansion was originally built on its 67 acre property by liquor baron, real estate developer, and art collector Henry Clay Gibson in 1881. The mansion along with its art and antiques collection was passed on from the Gibson family to John W. Merriam, and then finally to his stepson Robert Lockyer, the current owner.
Kamelot Auctions
Mar. 22, 2016
NORMAN THOMAS AMERICAN TEMPERA ON PAPER SIGNED
Est: $200 - $400
Norman Thomas (American, 1915-1986) Two works of art including a tempera on paper of three standing female nudes and sleeping man. Both signed lower right 'Norman Thomas' Framed nudes measure: 35.75" x 28.75" Provenance: From the original collection of the Maybrook mansion in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. The 20,000 square foot Gothic mansion was originally built on its 67 acre property by liquor baron, real estate developer, and art collector Henry Clay Gibson in 1881. The mansion along with its art and antiques collection was passed on from the Gibson family to John W. Merriam, and then finally to his stepson Robert Lockyer, the current owner.
Kamelot Auctions
Feb. 13, 2016
Norman Millet Thomas (1915-1986)
Est: $400 - $500
Norman Millet Thomas (ME./N.Y./Cal./Mexico 1915-1986), three Classical nude male mythology subjects, gouache. C. 1962. Sights 24 1/2" x 12". Titles verso.
Copake Auction Inc.
Sep. 17, 2015
Norman Millet Thomas (American, 1915-1986) Three Figures Riding Donkeys. Signed "N. Thomas" l.r. Mixed media on paper, sight size 22 3/
Est: $350 - $450
Norman Millet Thomas (American, 1915-1986) Three Figures Riding Donkeys. Signed "N. Thomas" l.r. Mixed media on paper, sight size 22 3/8 x 17 1/8 in., framed. Condition: Not examined out of frame.
Skinner
Sep. 21, 2014
Norman Thomas, "Mustangs," 20th c., etching, 51/150, pencil numbered l.l. margin, pencil titled lower center margin, pencil signed l...
Est: $200 - $300
Norman Thomas, "Mustangs," 20th c., etching, 51/150, pencil numbered l.l. margin, pencil titled lower center margin, pencil signed l.r. margin, framed, H.- 6 1/2 in., W.- 10 7/8.
Crescent City Auction Gallery
Aug. 07, 2009
Norman Millet Thomas
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
J. Daniel MacDonald, Pianist"
Barridoff Auctions
Aug. 03, 2007
Norman Thomas
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Norman Thomas American 1915 - 1986 Una explosion repentina de la energia Signed N. Thomas u.r. Oil on canvas 24 x 36 in.
Barridoff Auctions