# Howard Taylor artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/howard-taylor/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:53:14.201Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1918-08-29
- Death date: 2001-07-19
- Nationality: Australian
- Common media: Painting, Pottery, Graphic art

## About Howard Taylor

Howard Taylor (1918–2001) was an Australian artist whose recorded practice crossed painting, pottery, graphic art, and art teaching. Authority records from Wikidata, VIAF, and Getty ULAN distinguish him as the Australian artist Howard Taylor, helping separate his work from that of other people with the same name. A biographical source also places his art teaching in Perth, Western Australia, although the collected material does not provide a museum biography, exhibition history, named movement, or catalogue of works. Collectors may therefore encounter Taylor’s name across more than one object category rather than within a single medium. Identification should begin with the artist’s dates, Australian context, and the particular work type, without assuming a movement, subject, or period that the available evidence does not establish. The linked authority identifiers provide a stable foundation for matching auction records and incorporating stronger museum or scholarly evidence as it becomes available.

## Common works and media

Public biographical material identifies painting, pottery, and graphic art as parts of Howard Taylor’s practice. These are the principal work types that may appear in appraisal or auction contexts, but the collected sources do not establish recurring subjects, named series, print editions, preferred materials, or a documented stylistic period.

## Market and appraisal context

Howard Taylor’s market record should be approached through careful identity matching and comparison within the correct work category. The available biographical material connects him with painting, pottery, and graphic art, but the collected source pack does not expose detailed auction lots or support conclusions about price trends. When records are available, comparisons should focus on works assigned to the Australian artist born in 1918 and should keep different media separate. Sale dates, realized prices, and genuinely comparable lots can provide context, but an artist-name match alone is insufficient because Howard Taylor is shared by multiple people. No value range or prediction is supported by the present evidence.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine authority-based artist identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Evidence gaps are retained rather than replaced with unsupported attribution or market claims.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5921021
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/226099763/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500356118
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Taylor_(painter)
- Wikipedia: https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1_(%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85)
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/howard-taylor/