Mary Ogden Abbott Auction Prices and Value Guide

Mary Ogden Abbott auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 171 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Mary Ogden Abbott auction prices: quick answer

Mary Ogden Abbott auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Mary Ogden Abbott
Source records
171
Market update
2026-02-06

Mary Ogden Abbott market snapshot

Mary Ogden Abbott shows solid auction liquidity with 107 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $5,250. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 34 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-18.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (9.1% · 8 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (58.0% · 51 sales)
  • $10,000+ (33.0% · 29 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$1,905
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
34
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-12-18

Artist context

About Mary Ogden Abbott

Mary Ogden Abbott portrait
National Park Service Employee Fred Bell · Public domain · Source

Born

1894

Died

1981

Nationality

American

Mary Ogden Abbott (1894–1981) was an American artist and woodworker whose recorded practice included wood carving and line drawing. Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, and the Library of Congress provide aligned authority records for her identity, while VIAF records her life years and American association. Public biographical material also describes Abbott as a world traveler, equestrian, and early Grand Canyon river runner, giving her artistic career an unusually wide personal context. Collectors may encounter her name on carved wood objects as well as works on paper, making the identification of medium and object type an important first step in research. Her cross-disciplinary profile also calls for careful entity matching so that records are not confused with those of similarly named people. The present source pack establishes her core identity and principal media but does not provide enough institution-grade detail to assign a formal movement, dated stylistic period, or documented series.

Wood carvingLine drawing

Common works and media

Public biographical sources identify wood carving and line drawing as Abbott's principal recorded art forms. In appraisal and auction contexts, likely categories therefore include carved wood objects and works on paper. The collected sources do not document specific editions, recurring subjects, named series, or a catalogue raisonné, so those characteristics should not be assumed from the artist's name alone.

Market and appraisal context

Appraisal of a work attributed to Mary Ogden Abbott should begin by separating carved wood objects from line drawings and other works on paper, because those formats require different comparison sets. Identity should be checked against the authority records linked on this page, especially when an attribution is supported only by a name or inscription. Appraisily's input indicates an auction-record presence for the artist, but the collected page fetch did not expose individual lots, sale dates, estimates, condition reports, or realized prices. Comparable sales should therefore be used only when their artist identity, medium, and work type can be verified. The current evidence does not support a price forecast, scarcity claim, or market-trend statement.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Wood carvings and carved wood objects
  • Line drawings and works on paper

Value drivers

  1. Medium and work type should define the comparison set, with carved wood objects assessed separately from line drawings and other works on paper.
  2. Artist identity should be reconciled with the linked VIAF, Getty ULAN, Wikidata, and Library of Congress authority records.
  3. Comparable public auction records may provide context when lot-level identity, medium, and work type match the object being appraised.

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack contains an Appraisily auction-record signal but no accessible lot-level sale details because the page request returned a rate-limit response.
  • No major-auction-house biography or public lot narrative was collected, so the evidence does not support price forecasts, scarcity claims, or market-trend conclusions.
  • The source pack does not establish how condition, dimensions, date, subject, provenance, or attribution have affected this artist's realized auction prices.

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 Mary Ogden Abbott

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Mary Ogden Abbott 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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