# Anna Althea Hills artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/anna-althea-hills/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:09:11.494Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Movements: Impressionism, Plein-air painting
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Anna Althea Hills](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Anna_Althea_Hills.jpg)
Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anna_Althea_Hills.jpg

## About Anna Althea Hills

Anna Althea Hills (1882–1930) was an American painter associated in the collected sources with plein-air practice and Impressionist landscape painting. Authority records from Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, and the Library of Congress converge on her identity and lifespan, while VIAF identifies her as an American painter. The available biographical source describes Hills as specializing in landscapes of Southern California’s coast, placing geographic setting and outdoor observation at the center of her public profile. This helps explain why collectors may encounter her name in connection with California landscape painting rather than a broad range of unrelated media. The source pack is stronger on identity control than detailed scholarship: it does not provide a museum essay, catalogue raisonné, exhibition chronology, or primary biography. The most defensible summary is therefore concise—an American painter known in the available record for Impressionist, plein-air coastal landscapes—while her exact training, affiliations, chronology, and individual work histories remain subjects for further research.

## Common works and media

Within the collected source pack, Hills is identified as a painter and described as specializing in plein-air, Impressionist landscapes of the Southern California coast. Landscape paintings, including coastal subjects, are therefore the best-supported work types to associate with her. The available evidence does not establish a documented market for her prints, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or editions, so those categories should not be presented as common without further auction or catalogue research.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected evidence confirms Hills’s identity and indicates that Appraisily maintains an auction-price page for her, but it supplies no readable lot-level records, realized prices, sale dates, dimensions, condition notes, provenance, or attribution language. This research therefore cannot establish a price range, market trend, or premium for any subject, date, or format. A valuation should instead use separately verified comparable public sales that match the object’s medium and landscape subject as closely as possible. Authorship, date, condition, provenance, and the individual work’s documentation require object-level examination; no conclusion about those factors should be inferred solely from the artist-level profile.

## 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. For Hills, the present source pack supports identity and artistic context more strongly than market analysis.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4766818
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/131255980/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500199472
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2010175738
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Althea_Hills
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/anna-althea-hills/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anna_Althea_Hills.jpg