# Allyn Cox artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/allyn-cox/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:37:06.144Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1896-06-05
- Death date: 1982-09-26
- Nationality: American
- Common media: Mural painting, Painting

## Portrait

![Allyn Cox](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Allyn_Cox.jpg)
Mary Anne Fackelman · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Allyn_Cox.jpg

## About Allyn Cox

Allyn Cox (1896–1982) was an American artist and mural painter best known for large-scale public work in prominent United States institutions. The collected sources associate him with murals displayed in the United States Capitol, the U.S. Department of State, and the George Washington Masonic National Memorial. These documented commissions place mural painting at the center of his public identity, although the available source pack does not establish a formal movement or school for him. Collectors may encounter his name in connection with paintings or material attributed to his mural practice, but any proposed relationship to a major commission should be demonstrated through reliable documentation. His identity is represented by Wikidata and several library-authority identifiers, helping distinguish him from people with similar names. Because the present evidence is biographically narrow, claims about subjects, artistic periods, or a broader body of commonly traded work should remain cautious until museum, archival, or scholarly sources are added.

## Common works and media

The public sources most clearly document Allyn Cox as a mural painter and identify murals in the United States Capitol, the U.S. Department of State, and the George Washington Masonic National Memorial. Paintings and objects presented as connected to those commissions may therefore arise in research or appraisal contexts. The source pack does not substantiate a recurring market in editioned prints, sculptures, ceramics, posters, or other specific formats, so those categories should not be assumed without further evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

The available evidence supports treating mural painting and documented connections to Cox's major institutional commissions as central research considerations. For appraisal, the object itself should be examined for medium, dimensions, inscriptions, date, condition, provenance, and evidence connecting it to the artist or a known project. Those details are not established merely by the presence of Cox's name. Relevant dated auction records may provide comparison points when the attribution, work type, scale, subject, and condition are genuinely comparable. The collected source pack does not include a successfully fetched major auction-house result, so it cannot support a price forecast, market trend, or record-price claim. Any valuation should therefore combine object-specific evidence with verified public sales rather than relying on the artist biography alone.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4733451
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allyn_Cox
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allyn_Cox
- Wikipedia: https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B3
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/23792170/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92035115
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000061515826
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/154113514
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/allyn-cox/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Allyn_Cox.jpg