# Edward August Landon artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/edward-august-landon/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:19:23.249Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Common media: Painting

## About Edward August Landon

Edward August Landon (1911–1984) is identified by Wikidata as a painter. His identity is also represented in Getty ULAN and institutional records maintained by the Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, British Museum, Library of Congress, Bibliothèque nationale de France, VIAF, and ISNI. The National Gallery record uses the shorter name Edward Landon, an important variant when matching catalogues and auction listings. The collected sources do not establish nationality, training, movements, detailed chronology, or a documented range of subjects and media beyond painting, so those details remain unresolved. Collectors may encounter his name through auction records aggregated by Appraisily, but attribution should be checked against stable authority identifiers and the shortened-name variant. This page therefore emphasizes identity reconciliation and cautious record matching instead of assigning a school, style, or biography that the available public evidence does not substantiate.

## Common works and media

The available sources identify Landon as a painter, so paintings are the only work type supported by this pack. They do not specify preferred supports, techniques, subjects, series, print editions, drawings, sculptures, or other media. Any such classification should come from a documented object record or museum catalogue rather than from the artist name alone.

## Market and appraisal context

The Appraisily input inventory associates 186 auction records with this artist name, but the collected pack does not expose the underlying lot descriptions or results. The count should not be read as 186 distinct authenticated works, nor as evidence of liquidity or price direction. For appraisal, the first task is identity control: records headed Edward August Landon and Edward Landon should be reconciled through the linked authority and museum identifiers. Comparable lots should then be evaluated only when their sale date, realized price, medium, dimensions, condition, provenance, edition status, subject, date, and attribution are documented. With those details absent here, no price estimate or trend claim is supported.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched identity records with auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. This profile's biographical and market detail is limited to what the collected public sources substantiate.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52157235
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500331743
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.26061.html
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/45484
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG34691
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/edward-august-landon/