# Bill Wittliff artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/bill-wittliff/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:21:24.276Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1940-01-21
- Death date: 2019-06-09
- Nationality: American
- Common media: Photography, Works on paper and prints, Sculpture and mixed media, Decorative art and editions

## Portrait

![Bill Wittliff](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Bill_wittliff_2014.jpg)
Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bill_wittliff_2014.jpg

## About Bill Wittliff

Bill Wittliff, formally William Dale Wittliff, was an American photographer, screenwriter, author, and curator whose career joined visual art with literature and film. Born in 1940 and active until his death in 2019, he is widely recognized for screenwriting as well as photography. His credited films include The Perfect Storm, Barbarosa, and Raggedy Man, while authority records also identify his work as a photographer and curator. That multidisciplinary identity is important when distinguishing his photographs and other visual material from books, film-related objects, or records belonging to similarly named people. Collectors may encounter Wittliff through photographic works, works on paper, editions, and material connected with his broader creative career. No documented art movement or formal school is established by the collected sources, so his work is better described through medium, date, subject, provenance, and its relationship to his documented photographic practice.

## Common works and media

Wittliff is securely documented as a photographer, making photographs the clearest medium associated with his visual practice in the collected identity sources. Appraisily's auction index also places matched records in works on paper and prints, fine art and paintings, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions. Those broader labels should be treated as provisional auction classifications rather than a definitive catalogue of his work. For appraisal, identify the exact process and support, dimensions, date, signature or inscription, edition number and size where applicable, condition, provenance, and whether the object has a documented connection to Wittliff.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's current public index reports 47 matched auction records, including 43 priced records, across sales dated from 2015 through 2026. The observed results span $100 to $3,750, but this range should not be treated as a prediction for an unidentified work. A useful appraisal compares like with like: medium, dimensions, date, condition, signature or inscriptions, edition status, provenance, subject, and attribution all matter. Because the index assigns some records to broad categories, each candidate comparable should also be checked to confirm that it represents Bill Wittliff and the same kind of object. Reported prices may differ in their treatment of buyer's premiums and fees, while private sales and incomplete feeds may remain absent.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Identity matches, attribution, condition, and comparability should be reviewed before market data is applied to a specific object.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8007527
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/17343759/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86813533
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_D._Wittliff
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_D._Wittliff
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/bill-wittliff/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bill_wittliff_2014.jpg