# A. H. O. Rolle artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/a-h-o-rolle/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:24:07.692Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Movements: American Impressionism
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![A. H. O. Rolle](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Mr._A._H._O._Rolle_%286553850239%29.jpg/1280px-Mr._A._H._O._Rolle_%286553850239%29.jpg)
Smithsonian Institution from United States · No restrictions
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mr._A._H._O._Rolle_(6553850239).jpg

## About A. H. O. Rolle

A. H. O. Rolle, identified in authority records as August H. O. Rolle and in Smithsonian-linked image metadata as August Herman Olson Rolle, was an American painter born in 1875. The available institutional metadata describes him as an American Impressionist landscape painter who attended the Corcoran School of Art from 1905 to 1915 and helped found the Landscape Club of Washington, D.C. Rolle also pursued a professional career as a forestry expert associated with the Bureau of the Census. Collectors are therefore most likely to encounter his name in connection with American landscape painting and the early twentieth-century Washington art community. Public identity evidence remains limited, and authority records disagree about whether he died in 1940 or 1941. Works attributed to him should consequently be matched carefully against established name forms and documented records.

## Common works and media

The collected evidence identifies Rolle as a painter associated with American Impressionism and landscape subjects. Paintings and landscape paintings are therefore the best-supported categories for cataloging and appraisal searches. The source pack does not establish a documented body of prints, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, posters, editions, or named series, so those categories should not be assigned without object-specific or catalogue evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

The available source pack supports a broad market classification of paintings, particularly landscapes, but it does not include usable lot-level descriptions or public sale results. It therefore cannot establish a price range, trend, or hierarchy among Rolle's works. Appraisal research should begin by resolving the artist's identity across the abbreviated A. H. O. Rolle name and its expanded forms. Any submitted work should then be compared with relevant public auction records when available. Conclusions should remain provisional until the object and comparable lots can be evaluated using documented sale dates, realized prices, descriptions, and supporting auction-house context.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For A. H. O. Rolle, the present identity evidence is stronger than the collected lot-level market evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21481329
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/70577898/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91117095
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mr._A._H._O._Rolle_(6553850239).jpg
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/a-h-o-rolle/