# Bertram Hartman artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/bertram-hartman/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:48:52.597Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Oil painting, Watercolor painting

## About Bertram Hartman

Bertram Hartman (1882–1960), also cataloged as C. Bertram Hartman, was an American painter identified consistently across Wikidata, VIAF, and Getty ULAN authority records. The available biographical source describes him as working in both oil and watercolor. Public-domain works surfaced in the collected source pack include Trinity Church and Wall Street and Mark Island, indicating that collectors may encounter city and architectural views as well as landscape subjects under his name. Hartman’s work is best researched through careful matching of the artist’s name, medium, subject, and object-specific documentation rather than through an unsupported movement label. Appraisily’s artist page contains a substantial aggregate auction-record signal for Hartman, but the present source pack does not supply individual lot descriptions or a comprehensive scholarly biography. His identity and lifespan are well anchored; claims about stylistic affiliations, training, periods, or catalogue status require additional institutional or scholarly evidence.

## Common works and media

Available sources identify Hartman as an oil and watercolor painter. The collected public-domain examples include an urban architectural subject, Trinity Church and Wall Street, and the landscape Mark Island. These examples support paintings—particularly city views, architectural scenes, and landscapes—as relevant work types in auction and appraisal research. The source pack does not establish that Hartman produced sculptures, ceramics, posters, or formally issued print editions, so those categories should not be assigned without object-specific evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected evidence supports oil paintings and watercolors as the principal work types to consider when researching Bertram Hartman at auction. Comparisons should distinguish between media and between subjects such as urban or architectural views and landscapes. Appraisily’s aggregate record signal indicates that public auction material exists under Hartman’s name, but the research pack does not expose individual sale dates, realized prices, dimensions, condition reports, provenance, or attribution notes. Those missing details prevent a responsible price conclusion from identity research alone. Any appraisal should therefore verify the physical work and its documentation, then compare it with genuinely similar public records rather than treating every result attached to the artist’s name as equivalent.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Hartman, the current pack establishes identity and principal media more securely than it establishes detailed lot-level market history.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18507942
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/58869856/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500027646
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Bertram_Hartman
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brooklyn_Museum_-_Trinity_Church_and_Wall_Street_-_Bertram_Hartman.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mark_Island,_by_Bertram_Hartman.jpg
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/bertram-hartman/