# Dorothy Hood artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/dorothy-hood/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:39:46.958Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1919-08-27
- Death date: 2000-10-28
- Nationality: American
- Movements: Modernist tradition
- Common media: Oil paint, Ink

## About Dorothy Hood

Dorothy Hood (1919–2000) was an American painter associated in the available source material with the Modernist tradition. Her identity is represented across several established cultural and authority systems, including Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, ISNI, RKD, and the Museum of Modern Art. The collected biographical material identifies oil paint and ink as her preferred media, so collectors may encounter both paintings and ink-based works attributed to her. The available pack does not establish named series, recurring subjects, a detailed career chronology, or a narrower movement classification, and this profile therefore avoids supplying those details without stronger documentation. For entity matching, the clearest anchors are her name, American nationality, occupation as a painter, 1919–2000 lifespan, and linked institutional identifiers. Exact birth and death dates are reported in one collected Wikipedia language edition but are not independently confirmed by the stronger excerpts in this source pack.

## Common works and media

The collected biography identifies oil paint and ink as Dorothy Hood's preferred media. Auction and appraisal searches may therefore encounter oil paintings and ink-based works. The present source pack does not provide enough institution-grade detail to name recurring subjects, formal series, print editions, sculptures, ceramics, or poster production.

## Market and appraisal context

The supplied Appraisily input associates Dorothy Hood with an auction-record footprint, but the public artist page was rate-limited during collection and no readable major-auction-house source was captured. This evidence does not support a price trend, typical value range, record price, or scarcity claim. The source pack does support distinguishing oil paintings from ink works when choosing comparables rather than treating every work as equivalent. A record-level appraisal should examine accessible sale dates, realized prices, dimensions, condition, provenance, attribution, and closely comparable lots. Until that evidence is reviewed directly, this market summary should be treated as an identity-led starting point rather than a valuation conclusion.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. For Dorothy Hood, the collected identity evidence is stronger than the present market-source evidence, so auction conclusions require record-level review.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16014889
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500088001
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/114778812/
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/2722
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Hood
- Wikipedia: https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AB%D9%8A_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%AF
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85347388
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000083193223
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/86993
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/dorothy-hood/