# Carl William Peters artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:16:26.437Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting, Mural painting

## About Carl William Peters

Carl William Peters (1897–1980), also catalogued as Carl W. Peters, was an American painter. Authority records from VIAF, IdRef, Wikidata, and Getty ULAN align these names with the same twentieth-century artist, helping distinguish him from people with similar names. The strongest art-historical context in the collected public sources is his relationship to Rochester WPA murals. IdRef links Peters to Art for the People: Carl W. Peters and the Rochester WPA Murals, a publication associated with a 2015–2016 exhibition at the University of Rochester's Memorial Art Gallery. This record establishes Rochester mural work as a documented part of his practice, although the available source pack does not provide a full chronology, training history, or list of individual works. Collectors may encounter his work through paintings and auction records catalogued under either form of his name, making careful identity matching important when researching or appraising an object.

## Common works and media

The collected evidence supports paintings and, more specifically, Rochester WPA mural work. It does not establish a reliable catalog of easel-painting subjects, drawings, prints, sculpture, editions, or other media. Auction and appraisal records should therefore describe the actual object rather than extrapolate a broader body of work from the limited authority and exhibition references.

## Market and appraisal context

Market interpretation should begin with identity control: records should match the American painter who lived from 1897 to 1980, including the name variant Carl W. Peters. The source pack supports painting and a documented Rochester WPA mural context, but it contains no lot-level descriptions, condition reports, provenance, dimensions, sale dates, or realized-price examples. Those gaps prevent a responsible claim about price level or trend. Public auction records should be compared only after the object's attribution and connection to this artist are established. Any claimed relationship to the Rochester murals requires documentation rather than visual inference alone. When suitable records are available, comparable works should be evaluated using their catalogued characteristics and sale context.

## 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 and can be matched to the correct artist.

## Sources

- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/22995920/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/055319742
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21481350
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500026836
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/carl-william-peters/