# Abbott Lawrence Pattison artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:33:30.434Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Movements: Abstract art
- Common media: Sculpture

## Portrait

![Abbott Lawrence Pattison](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/City_Totem%2C_1992.jpg)
Harry Pattison · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:City_Totem,_1992.jpg

## About Abbott Lawrence Pattison

Abbott Lawrence Pattison (1916–1999) was an American artist identified in the collected public records as a sculptor and abstract artist. Authority and encyclopedia entries connect his full name with the shorter form Abbott Pattison, which collectors may encounter in catalogues and online records. The available sources place his work broadly within 20th-century American abstract art, with sculpture as the only specifically documented medium. This source pack does not provide a museum biography, catalogue raisonné, named series, subject taxonomy, or detailed artistic chronology. Appraisily therefore presents Pattison principally as a 20th-century American sculptor working in an abstract context, without assigning unsupported schools, materials, commissions, or stylistic phases. His inclusion in Appraisily's auction-record directory indicates a resale-market presence, but conclusions about individual objects should depend on the evidence attached to each work and its comparable lots.

## Common works and media

The available sources support sculpture as Pattison's principal documented work type and associate his practice with abstract art. They do not establish particular sculptural materials, recurring subjects, named series, editions, paintings, drawings, prints, ceramics, or posters. Objects presented under his name should therefore be described from their own physical and documentary evidence rather than assigned to an unsupported category or phase.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected input associates Abbott Lawrence Pattison with an established body of auction-directory records, but the public Appraisily page could not be retrieved successfully during this research pass. The source pack therefore does not support conclusions about price levels, trends, scarcity, category frequency, or the relative performance of particular materials and subjects. For appraisal purposes, the defensible starting points are correct artist identification and consistency with Pattison's documented practice as a sculptor and abstract artist. Any valuation should then rely on the specific object's evidence and on relevant public auction records, including sale dates, realized prices, and genuinely comparable lots when those details are available.

## 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 distinguishes confirmed identity facts from market details that were not present in the collected source pack.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4664366
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbott_Pattison
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/108041738/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2010039305
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000077419599
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/abbott-lawrence-pattison/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:City_Totem,_1992.jpg