# Aaron Sopher artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/aaron-sopher/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:41:16.135Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American

## About Aaron Sopher

Aaron Sopher (1905–1972) was an American artist associated in the available public record with depictions of Baltimore, Maryland. His identity is represented by stable records at Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, ISNI, and the National Gallery of Art. The collected source material, however, provides little detailed biographical or curatorial context: it does not securely establish a movement, training history, preferred medium, or named body of work. Appraisily’s input data associates Sopher’s public artist page with 289 auction records, making careful entity matching important when reviewing catalog entries. Because the supplied sources do not describe those individual lots, their media, dates, and attribution language should be assessed record by record rather than generalized from the artist’s name or Baltimore subject association.

## Common works and media

The available source pack supports depictions of Baltimore as a subject associated with Aaron Sopher. It does not reliably establish whether the works most often encountered are paintings, drawings, prints, or objects in another medium, and it provides no supported edition, series, or format information. Work types should therefore be identified from individual catalog records rather than inferred for the artist as a whole.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily’s input signal associates 289 auction records with Aaron Sopher, but the collected public artist page was rate-limited and no major auction-house record was captured. This profile therefore does not infer price levels, demand trends, or a standard auction category. Appraisal research should examine the specific object and use genuinely comparable public sale records when they are available. The documented association with Baltimore subjects may assist identity matching, but subject matter alone is not evidence of authorship, authenticity, condition, or value.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile preserves evidence gaps where the collected sources do not support a more detailed conclusion.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14107
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500041087
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/58887052/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008050289
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000107186475
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.5632.html
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Sopher
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/aaron-sopher/