# Alexander Raymond Katz artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:30:10.924Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Movements: Modernism
- Common media: Painting, Mural painting, Illustration, Poster design, Periodical cover art

## About Alexander Raymond Katz

Alexander Raymond Katz (1895–1974) was an American modernist painter, muralist, and illustrator. Authority records also identify him as A. Raymond Katz. His career encompassed fine-art painting and applied graphic work, and surviving public examples include magazine illustration, a cover for The Chicagoan, and a 1934 poster for Chicago’s Century of Progress exposition. Biographical summaries particularly associate his imagery with Chicago, his longtime home. This range matters for identification: collectors may encounter Katz through an easel painting, an illustration or periodical cover, or a signed poster rather than through a single uniform body of work. The variation in format and intended use means that name forms, signatures, publication context, and object type should be considered together when matching a work to the artist. Public authority records from Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, and the Library of Congress help distinguish him from similarly named artists.

## Common works and media

Documented work types include paintings, murals, illustrations, posters, and periodical cover art. Public examples in the collected sources include a cover and an illustration for The Chicagoan and a 1934 Century of Progress poster. Chicago-related imagery is also associated with Katz’s work. These documented formats describe the range collectors may encounter, but their relative frequency in auction records has not been measured from the available source pack.

## Market and appraisal context

Katz’s market context should be assessed by object type rather than by treating every associated record as interchangeable. Paintings, murals, magazine illustrations, covers, and posters have different physical formats and collecting contexts. For appraisal, first establish whether the object is an original work, a printed publication component, or a poster, then reconcile its signature or credit line with documented name forms such as Alexander Raymond Katz and A. Raymond Katz. Chicago subject matter or period publication context may assist identification but does not establish authorship by itself. Comparable auction records are most useful when the identity, medium, format, attribution, and subject context genuinely align. The collected source pack confirms an Appraisily auction-record footprint but provides no lot-level results, so no price trend or forecast is claimed.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research with auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. This profile separates well-supported identity and work-type evidence from market details that require examination of individual auction records.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52150888
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/1755825/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500129205
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Raymond_Katz
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Century_of_Progress_1934_Sandor_Poster.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Chicagoan_Cover_1928-08-11.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Spirit_of_Izaak_Walton,_by_A._Raymond_Katz.jpeg
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/alexander-raymond-katz/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97068724
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000067031013