# Orson Lowell - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T02:31:50.594Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 17
- Lots with prices: 12
- First auction date: 2002-06-01
- Latest auction date: 2024-12-12
- Median realised price: $550
- Price range: $200 to $2,032

## Market Takeaway
Orson Lowell has 17 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $550. Category concentration is still broad. Recent 12-month volume is still light. These metrics reflect recorded public auction results and may not include private transactions or every premium outlier sale.

## How To Read This Data
- Use median \($550\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($400 to $1,000\) as the middle 50% of recorded sales.
- Auction prices can include buyer premiums or fees depending on house reporting, so compare on a like\-for\-like basis.
- Condition, provenance, size, and attribution confidence can move final value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 66.7% (8 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 33.3% (4 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $875
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-12-12
- Days since latest sale: 503
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Heritage Auctions: 6 lots
- Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions: 2 lots
- Poster Auctions International Inc: 2 lots
- Rachel Davis Fine Arts: 2 lots
- Bourgeault\-Horan Antiquarians: 1 lots
- RoGallery: 1 lots
- Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers: 1 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 1 lots
- Toomey & Co. Auctioneers: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-12-12 | ORSON LOWELL \(1871\-1956\) "He catches the train \- but spreads confusion." | Swann Auction Galleries | $875
2. 2023-03-25 | Orson Lowell pen and ink | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $200
3. 2022-12-02 | ORSON LOWELL \(AMERICAN, 1871\-1956\) | Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers | $400
4. 2021-06-12 | Orson Lowell pen and ink drawing | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $400
5. 2015-02-02 | Scribner's / Yale. ca. 1897 | Poster Auctions International Inc | N/A
6. 2015-01-25 | Scribner's / Yale. ca. 1897 | Poster Auctions International Inc | N/A
7. 2015-01-13 | Orson Lowell \(1871\-1956\) Original O/C Life Magazine Cover 9/25/1913Titled "A Warm Heart" this important original oil on canvas Life Magazine cover illustration by the renowned American illustrator artist Orson Lowell amusingly depicts a cupid getting | Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions | $550
8. 2014-11-16 | ORSON LOWELL \(AMERICAN 1871\-1956\). ILLUSTRATION OF A BATHING BEAUTY, "LOOK A' HERE, MISS. THIS IS THE SECOND TIME I HAD TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT KEEPIN' YOUR STOCKINGS PULLED UP." | Bourgeault\-Horan Antiquarians | $480
9. 2014-06-17 | Orson Lowell \(1871\-1956\) Original O/C Life Magazine Cover 9/25/13Titled "A Warm Heart" this important original oil on canvas Life Magazine cover illustration by the renowned American illustrator artist Orson Lowell amusingly depicts a cupid getting | Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions | $1,000
10. 2011-11-17 | Orson Lowell, Study of Women, Ink Drawing | RoGallery | N/A
11. 2009-10-27 | ORSON LOWELL \(American, 1871\-1956\) A Linguist with | Heritage Auctions | $717
12. 2009-10-27 | ORSON LOWELL \(American, 1871\-1956\) Beach Scene Ink | Heritage Auctions | $1,553
13. 2009-07-15 | ORSON LOWELL \(American, 1871\-1956\) Street Scene | Heritage Auctions | N/A
14. 2009-07-15 | ORSON LOWELL \(American, 1871\-1956\) Yes, Dick Is | Heritage Auctions | $1,314
15. 2009-03-13 | ORSON LOWELL \(American 1871 \- 1956\) Here Lies | Heritage Auctions | $2,032
16. 2009-03-13 | ORSON LOWELL \(American 1871 \- 1956\) Gates of the | Heritage Auctions | $478
17. 2002-06-01 | Orson Lowell \(American, 1871\-1956\), "Little Girl in the Garden", c. 1908; ink drawing, 11" x 6", | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | N/A

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