# Harold Altman artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/harold-altman/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T21:54:35.049Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Prints

## About Harold Altman

Harold Altman (1924–2003) was an American artist whose identity is consistently represented in international museum and library authority systems, including Getty ULAN and VIAF. The catalog information collected here documents prints as an important part of his public record. Listed titles point to recurring observations of trees, seasonal change, children, conversation, market activity, chairs, and fragments of city life. These subjects help explain why collectors may encounter Altman through graphic works depicting landscapes, urban spaces, and figures in everyday settings. Stable institutional records also connect his name with profiles maintained by the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Library of Congress. The present source pack does not provide enough biographical or scholarly evidence to assign Altman to a specific movement, describe his training, or reconstruct distinct career periods, so those details are intentionally left open rather than inferred.

## Common works and media

The clearest documented category is prints. VIAF-linked catalog entries include titles concerning yellow trees, a child with chairs, falling leaves, city fragments, conversation, market activity, and a December day. Together, these records suggest that collectors may encounter Altman prints featuring trees and seasonal landscapes, urban observations, and figures engaged in ordinary social settings. The source pack does not establish specific printmaking techniques, edition formats, or a complete list of his media.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's artist-page input indicates a substantial auction-record footprint for Harold Altman, while the authority evidence identifies prints as a documented work type. This source pack does not contain individual sale results, edition sizes, technique descriptions, condition reports, signature guidance, provenance histories, or evidence of price trends. An appraisal should therefore begin by identifying the particular object and matching it, where possible, to a documented title and the most comparable public auction records. Sale date, realized price, work type, and lot-level similarities should be evaluated from the underlying records rather than inferred from the artist's name alone.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22235729
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500028706
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95858895/
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/harold-altman/