# Bill Reid artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/bill-reid/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:12:16.857Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Canadian
- Movements: Haida art, Northwest Coast Indigenous art
- Common media: Sculpture, Jewelry, Painting, Screen-printing

## Portrait

![Bill Reid](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Bill_Reid_-_Close_up.jpg/500px-Bill_Reid_-_Close_up.jpg)
Guilhem Vellut from Annecy, France · CC BY 2.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bill_Reid_-_Close_up.jpg

## About Bill Reid

Bill Reid (1920–1998), also known as William Ronald Reid Jr. and Iljuwas, was a Canadian Haida artist whose practice encompassed jewelry, sculpture, screen-printing, and painting. Public sources place his work within Haida and broader Northwest Coast Indigenous art. Collectors may therefore encounter his name on objects from markedly different production contexts, ranging from jewelry and sculpture to printed and painted works. This breadth matters for identification and appraisal because Bill Reid should not be treated as a single-medium market: each object needs to be understood within its own work type and compared with relevant examples. Language-specific public records also associate the names Kihlguulins and Yalth Sgwansang with him. The supplied Appraisily directory contains 267 auction entries under Bill Reid, providing a substantial starting pool for research, although individual records still require identity matching and lot-level review before they can serve as dependable comparable evidence.

## Common works and media

Public biographical sources associate Bill Reid with jewelry, sculpture, screen-printing, and painting. These are the principal work types collectors may encounter under his name in auction and appraisal contexts. Because the source pack does not describe specific materials, dimensions, editions, subjects, or series, those details should be documented from the individual object and its reliable records rather than inferred from the artist name alone.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should begin by identifying whether the object is jewelry, sculpture, a screenprint, or a painting, since Reid worked in each of those media. Comparable selection should remain medium-specific: a sculpture record does not automatically provide useful evidence for a print or piece of jewelry. The supplied Appraisily source pack reports 267 associated auction entries, but it does not provide the dimensions, materials, condition, provenance, signature, edition information, or realized prices needed to assess any individual object here. Relevant public records should therefore be checked for artist identity, sale date, work type, and true comparability before conclusions are drawn. This evidence supports research and appraisal context, not an unsupported price forecast.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched artist identity with available auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. Each record must still be checked for correct identity, attribution, and meaningful comparability.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q615962
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500127408
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/51726674/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50050932
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/320413
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG127555
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Reid
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Reid_(kunstenaar)
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/bill-reid/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bill_Reid_-_Close_up.jpg