# Arthur Meltzer artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/arthur-meltzer/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:05:41.221Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting

## About Arthur Meltzer

Arthur Meltzer (1893–1989) was an American painter and teacher whose identity is documented by Wikidata, VIAF, and Getty ULAN authority records. Collected biographical material particularly associates his painting with landscapes and carefully rendered still lifes. A secondary biography also places him within the last generation of Pennsylvania Impressionists, although the available source pack does not contain an accessible museum or scholarly account that independently confirms that classification. It is therefore best presented as biographical context rather than an unqualified movement assignment. For collectors, Meltzer’s established authority identifiers help distinguish his work from objects connected to people with similar names. In auction and appraisal settings, his name is most plausibly encountered in relation to twentieth-century American paintings, especially landscape and still-life compositions. More detailed claims about his training, exhibitions, chronology, or individual bodies of work require additional institution-grade documentation.

## Common works and media

The collected biographical material identifies Meltzer primarily with paintings, particularly landscapes and still lifes. The source pack does not substantiate a regular practice in sculpture, ceramics, print editions, posters, or other media, so those categories should not be assigned to him without object-specific or institutional evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

The available sources establish Meltzer as a painter and identify landscape and still-life subjects, but they do not expose enough lot-level evidence to characterize price trends or the relative performance of particular work types. The collected Appraisily page indicates an auction-record context, although that page was rate-limited during research and its individual lots could not be reviewed. A careful appraisal should therefore match the object to Meltzer’s established identity, classify its medium and subject, and then consult genuinely comparable public sales when accessible. Sale date, realized price, and lot similarity should be verified from the underlying records rather than inferred from the artist name alone. No conclusion about scarcity, editions, or market direction is supported by this source pack.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine authority-based identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are publicly available and sufficiently documented.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21985255
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/73763976/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500021893
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Meltzer
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/arthur-meltzer/