# Douglas Volk artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:10:28.907Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

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

## Portrait

![Douglas Volk](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Douglas_Volk.jpg/1280px-Douglas_Volk.jpg)
Peter A. Juley & Son · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Douglas_Volk.jpg

## About Douglas Volk

Douglas Volk (1856–1935), born Stephen Arnold Douglas Volk, was an American portrait and figure painter, muralist, and art educator. His career joined studio practice with teaching: the collected biography identifies appointments at Cooper Union and the Art Students League of New York and describes him as a founder of the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts. Volk and his wife, Marion, also established a summer artists’ colony in western Maine, extending his role in American art beyond the production of paintings. Collectors are most likely to encounter his name in connection with portraits, figure compositions, and works associated with his long teaching career. His record should be distinguished from similarly named artists by using his full name, life years, and authority identifiers. The available source pack establishes the broad outline of his identity and practice, but it does not provide enough accessible museum or scholarly text to assign a specific movement, define chronological periods, or summarize a catalogue of major works with confidence.

## Common works and media

Volk is documented as a portrait and figure painter as well as a muralist. Works considered in an appraisal context may therefore include painted portraits, figure compositions, and mural-related material. The present source pack does not support claims about which formats, supports, sizes, subjects, or periods occur most often at auction.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected Appraisily input indicates an auction-record footprint, but the accessible source pack contains no lot-level descriptions, sale results, or major-auction-house commentary. Appraisal should therefore begin by confirming attribution and documenting the work’s medium, dimensions, subject, date, inscriptions, provenance, condition, and any exhibition or publication history. A portrait may also require identification of the sitter and comparison with securely documented works. These are review points, not claims that any one feature guarantees a higher price. When public sale records are available, comparisons should use genuinely similar works and account for auction house, sale date, currency, condition, and whether a reported figure is a hammer price or includes buyer’s premium.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1252545
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Volk
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Douglas_Volk.jpg