# Erle Loran artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/erle-loran/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:37:52.459Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting

## About Erle Loran

Erle Loran (1905–1999) was an American painter, author, art historian, and longtime professor of art. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley from 1937 to 1981 and became especially known for writing about the formal analysis of Paul Cézanne's paintings. This combination of studio practice, scholarship, and teaching gives Loran a distinct place in twentieth-century American art history, although the collected evidence does not establish a specific movement label. Collectors may encounter Loran chiefly through paintings, while library authority records also reflect his importance as an author. Public identifiers from Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and the Library of Congress help distinguish him from similarly named people and connect his artistic and published activity. The available material also reports that museums in California and New York hold his paintings, but it provides no collection-level details. This profile therefore emphasizes confirmed identity and professional context rather than assigning unsupported styles, subjects, or periods.

## Common works and media

Painting is the only work type clearly supported by the collected sources. The evidence does not establish recurring subjects, named series, print editions, sculpture, ceramics, drawings, posters, or other common auction categories. Works in media other than painting should be classified from the object and corroborated with museum, catalogue, or auction documentation before being described as typical of Loran's practice.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected material establishes a public auction context for Erle Loran and identifies painting as the principal supported work type, but it does not provide individual lot descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, dimensions, condition reports, provenance, signatures, or attribution notes. A defensible appraisal should therefore be based on comparable public auction records selected for the particular object once those records are available. The present evidence cannot support claims about price trends, scarcity, market direction, or the relative importance of particular subjects and periods. No major-auction-house source was included in the collected source pack.

## 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 distinguishes confirmed identity evidence from market details that remain undocumented in the collected source pack.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19753841
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/30984008/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500002613
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erle_Loran
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.33726.html
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85247391
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/erle-loran/