# George Demont Otis artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/george-demont-otis/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:15:14.654Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting

## About George Demont Otis

George Demont Otis (1879–1962) was an American artist identified in the available biographical material as a landscape painter. Public authority links connect his identity to Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, ISNI, IdRef, and RKDartists, helping distinguish him in catalogues from similarly named people. The collected sources do not establish a specific movement, school, training history, geographic center, or named series, so those details should not be inferred. Collectors are most likely to encounter Otis through landscape paintings and auction records catalogued under his name. Appraisily’s supplied dataset associates 231 records with this artist-page identity, although individual lot descriptions were unavailable in the research pack. A reliable identification should therefore consider the complete catalogue entry and the work itself, rather than treating the artist name or an aggregated record count as proof of authorship.

## Common works and media

The available biography identifies Otis as a landscape painter, making landscape paintings the clearest supported work type for auction and appraisal searches. The source pack does not establish particular recurring locations, named series, print editions, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, or other media, so such categories should be added only when verified by object-level or institutional evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected evidence supports an auction context for George Demont Otis but does not provide enough accessible lot-level information for price conclusions. A collector should compare the work’s stated attribution with relevant public records and review the actual catalogue descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This source pack does not establish how condition, dimensions, provenance, signature, date, or a particular landscape subject affected past results. Those details should be evaluated from the individual object and its documentation. An aggregated artist-page match is useful for discovery, but it is not a substitute for confirming authorship or selecting genuinely comparable sales.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For George Demont Otis, the identity evidence is clearer than the collected lot-level market evidence, so conclusions should remain tied to verified records.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5538477
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Demont_Otis
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500098177
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/21018526/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82015704
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000067045845
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/179895818
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/96166
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/george-demont-otis/