# Alan Caswell Collier artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T14:16:41.353Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Canadian
- Common media: Painting

## About Alan Caswell Collier

Alan Caswell Collier (1911–1990) was a Canadian painter whose identity is recorded by Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, and Art UK. These authorities consistently connect the artist with the same lifespan, although several records spell his middle name “Coswell” rather than “Caswell.” VIAF also exposes bibliographic and work-title references involving nature, a mine scene, and a guitar player, indicating that landscape or industrial settings and figure subjects may occur in catalogued material. The evidence supplied here does not identify a documented movement, school, training history, or complete list of media beyond painting, so those details should not be assumed. Collectors may encounter his work under either middle-name spelling, making authority-record matching useful when reviewing signatures, catalogues, collection records, and auction listings attributed to the artist.

## Common works and media

The reliable evidence identifies Collier as a painter. VIAF-linked titles refer to nature, a mine setting, and a guitar player, suggesting that landscapes or nature-related works, industrial scenes, and figure subjects can appear in cataloguing. Because the source pack provides titles rather than full object records, it does not support claims about a dominant medium, technique, format, series, or subject hierarchy beyond painting.

## Market and appraisal context

The available source pack is stronger on identity than on market performance. It does not provide accessible lot descriptions, realized prices, measurements, condition reports, provenance, signatures, dates, or edition details for individual works. An appraisal should therefore begin by confirming the artist identity across the Caswell and Coswell variants and documenting the object’s medium, support, size, subject, date, signature, condition, and ownership history before selecting comparable sales. Auction records displayed by Appraisily should be assessed by sale date and genuine lot comparability; a record count alone is not evidence of value or a market trend.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21453465
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500002884
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95698307/
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/collier-alan-coswell-19111990