Louis Oscar Griffith Auction Prices and Value Guide

Louis Oscar Griffith auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 293 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Louis Oscar Griffith auction prices: quick answer

Louis Oscar Griffith auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Louis Oscar Griffith
Source records
293
Market update
2026-02-06

Louis Oscar Griffith market snapshot

Louis Oscar Griffith shows solid auction liquidity with 133 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $650. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 4 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-21.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (69.8% · 74 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (22.6% · 24 sales)
  • $10,000+ (7.5% · 8 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$500
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
4
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-11-21

Artist context

About Louis Oscar Griffith

Born

1875

Died

1956

Nationality

American

Louis Oscar Griffith (1875–1956) was an American painter and printmaker best known for landscapes. His documented media include painting, etching, and aquatint, with subjects associated especially with Brown County, Indiana, and Texas. Griffith spent part of his youth in Dallas, where he studied with landscape artist Frank Reaugh and joined sketching trips in West Texas. He later pursued formal art training in St. Louis and Chicago and worked as a commercial artist. Collectors may encounter his name on both unique paintings and printed landscape images, making the medium and production method important parts of identification. The available sources establish his American identity, lifespan, and landscape focus, but they do not provide institution-grade support for assigning him to a specific formal movement. Exact birth and death dates also remain withheld here because the collected sources do not corroborate them consistently at the preferred authority level.

PaintingEtchingAquatintLandscapesBrown County, Indiana, scenesTexas scenes

Common works and media

Works associated with Griffith most commonly include landscape paintings, etchings, and aquatints. Documented subjects include scenery connected with Brown County, Indiana, and Texas, reflecting his sustained interest in American landscape. Paintings are unique objects, while etchings and aquatints are printmaking media and may require edition-specific examination. The collected sources do not establish a complete catalogue of subjects, print editions, or formal series, so unfamiliar works should be evaluated from their physical characteristics and documentation rather than assumed to belong to a known series.

Market and appraisal context

Griffith’s market should be assessed by comparing like with like: a painting should not be evaluated against an etching or aquatint without accounting for the different medium. Landscape subject matter and geographic associations, particularly Brown County and Texas, may also help narrow the most relevant comparable works. Appraisily’s collected input indicates a substantial auction-record presence, but the public page was rate-limited during research and no individual lots were inspected. Accordingly, this profile makes no claim about price direction or record values. A work-specific appraisal should verify attribution, medium, dimensions, condition, provenance, and any edition information before using public sale dates, realized prices, or comparable lots.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Landscape paintings
  • Etchings
  • Aquatints

Value drivers

  1. Medium should be matched carefully when selecting comparables because Griffith worked in painting, etching, and aquatint
  2. Landscape subject and geographic association, including Brown County or Texas, can help distinguish relevant works and comparables
  3. Verified public auction records, sale dates, realized prices, and closely comparable lots should be considered when available

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack contains an Appraisily auction-record signal but no accessible lot-level results because the page returned a rate-limit response during collection.
  • No major auction-house source was collected, so this profile does not support price trends, record-price claims, or predictions.
  • Authorship, condition, dimensions, provenance, and edition details require examination of the individual work and are not established by this artist-level profile.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.

Source-grounded artist Markdown

Data basis

This page is built from Appraisily's public auction market index. Private transactions, incomplete sale feeds, and attribution changes may not be fully represented.

LLM-readable Markdown summary for Louis Oscar Griffith

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Louis Oscar Griffith worth?

Comparable public auction sales are the best starting point, but final value depends on the specific artwork, condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence.

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