Fremont F. Ellis Auction Prices and Value Guide

Fremont F. Ellis auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 307 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Fremont F. Ellis auction prices: quick answer

Fremont F. Ellis auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Fremont F. Ellis
Source records
307
Market update
2026-02-06

Fremont F. Ellis market snapshot

Fremont F. Ellis shows deep auction liquidity with 201 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $6,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 3 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-11.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (3.3% · 5 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (62.9% · 95 sales)
  • $10,000+ (33.8% · 51 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$11,000
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
3
Median shift vs prior year
+100.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-11-11

Artist context

About Fremont F. Ellis

Fremont F. Ellis (1897–1985) was an American painter and printmaker born in Virginia City, Montana, who became a central figure in the Santa Fe, New Mexico art community. He is best known as the youngest founding member of Los Cinco Pintores, an early twentieth-century artist collective that included Will Shuster, Jozef Bakos, Walter Mruk, and Willard Nash. The group exhibited together and helped establish Santa Fe as an important center for Southwestern American art. Ellis devoted much of his career to landscape painting, capturing the distinctive light, color, and terrain of northern New Mexico. His representational style reflects the broader regionalist currents in American art while remaining closely tied to the specific geography and culture of the Southwest. Ellis remained active in Santa Fe throughout his working life, and his paintings are held in private collections and appear regularly at auction.

Los Cinco PintoresAmerican Southwestern artoil paintingprintmakinglandscape

Common works and media

Ellis primarily produced oil landscapes depicting northern New Mexico terrain, including mountain views, desert vistas, adobe architecture, and seasonal color studies. He also worked as a printmaker. Works encountered at auction and in appraisal contexts are typically oil paintings on canvas or board, with prints and works on paper appearing less frequently.

Market and appraisal context

Ellis's oil landscapes of New Mexico scenes are the works most frequently encountered at auction, typically executed on canvas or board. Valuation depends on provenance, condition, size, date, and subject matter. Works with documented exhibition history connected to Los Cinco Pintores or early Santa Fe galleries may attract stronger collector interest. Attribution should be verified by expert review, as no published catalogue raisonné was identified in available sources. Collectors should consult comparable public auction results for Southwestern American painters when assessing value.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Appraisal caveats

  • No published catalogue raisonné was identified in the available sources; attribution should be confirmed through expert review.
  • Alternate spellings of the artist's name (Freemont, Freemon) appear in cataloguing and may affect search results in auction databases.
  • Exact death date is not established in the source pack; only the death year (1985) is confirmed across multiple authority files.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context passed Appraisily's promotion threshold: high confidence, strong sources.

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Data basis

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