# Edith Barretto Parsons artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:21:06.300Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Sculpture

## Portrait

![Edith Barretto Parsons](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Edith_Barretto_Stevens_Parsons_1921.png)
No photographer credited in original source. · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edith_Barretto_Stevens_Parsons_1921.png

## About Edith Barretto Parsons

Edith Barretto Parsons, also recorded under the fuller name Edith Barretto Stevens Parsons, was an American sculptor who lived from 1878 to 1956. Getty ULAN, VIAF, and Wikidata authority records connect these name forms to the same artist, helping distinguish her work from objects catalogued under shortened or variant attributions. The available institutional identity data firmly establishes her profession and lifespan, although the collected sources provide little detail about her training, artistic affiliations, or documented subjects. Collectors may encounter Parsons through sculpture listings as well as auction records placed in broader categories such as mixed media, decorative art, editions, and works on paper. Because auction cataloguing can vary, a convincing identification should compare the artist name, signature or inscription, medium, dimensions, date, provenance, and object type. Her authority identifiers are especially useful when reconciling historic catalogue entries with modern sale records.

## Common works and media

Sculpture is the best-supported work type for Edith Barretto Parsons. Appraisily's matched auction data also places attributed objects in broader groupings that include sculpture and mixed media, decorative art and editions, and works on paper and prints. These classifications should be checked against each lot description because the source pack does not establish a definitive catalogue of her materials, subjects, editions, or series.

## Market and appraisal context

Auction results attributed to Edith Barretto Parsons should be compared with works that are genuinely similar in medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, and attribution status. Appraisily's public artist index includes matched sale records and places some entries in broad categories, so category labels alone should not determine comparability. Signatures, inscriptions, edition information, provenance, exhibition history, restoration, and surface condition may all affect how a work is assessed. Realized prices also require like-for-like comparison because reported totals may treat buyer premiums and fees differently. Public sales provide useful market evidence, but they do not capture every private transaction, attribution revision, or condition issue and therefore should not be treated as a standalone appraisal.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched artist identity and authority records with matched public auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5338500
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500074301
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96204990/
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/edith-barretto-parsons/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Barretto_Stevens_Parsons