# Donald Teague artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/donald-teague/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:51:18.253Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Watercolor, Magazine illustration

## About Donald Teague

Donald Teague is identified by Wikidata as an American artist and is described in the collected biographical source as a magazine illustrator and watercolorist. That combination places his documented practice across original works on paper and the commercial illustration field. The available account also associates his painting activity with the art-colony environment of Carmel-by-the-Sea. Collectors may therefore encounter his name in connection with watercolors as well as illustration-related material, although the present source pack does not establish a complete chronology, a named movement, recurring subjects, or a catalogue of works. Multiple public authority identifiers—including Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, GND, and ISNI—provide useful entity-matching anchors. Because most authority pages were rate-limited during collection, attribution and biographical details beyond the retrieved excerpts should be checked against inscriptions, provenance, and fuller institutional records before firm conclusions are drawn.

## Common works and media

The collected biographical evidence most clearly supports watercolors and magazine-illustration work. Illustration-related material may include original art made for publication, but the source pack does not document specific magazines, recurring subjects, print editions, sculptures, ceramics, or other established bodies of work. Classification should follow the physical object and its documentation rather than the artist name alone.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal of a work attributed to Donald Teague should begin by establishing whether it is an original watercolor, illustration-related artwork, or another type of object. The collected sources support his identification as a watercolorist and magazine illustrator, while Appraisily’s artist index signals an associated auction-record set. The supplied pack did not expose individual lot descriptions or results, however, so it cannot support a price range or market trend. A defensible valuation should compare the object with relevant public sales when available and should account for the exact attribution language, medium, dimensions, condition, provenance, subject, date, and relationship to any published illustration. Those object-level facts require separate documentation and are not established by the current identity sources.

## 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. This profile currently has stronger entity-matching evidence than detailed biographical or lot-level market evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43138674
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Teague
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500050965
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96021702/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88177291
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/119040131
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000078920035
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/donald-teague/