# Jack Wilkinson Smith artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/jack-wilkinson-smith/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:56:43.136Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Jack Wilkinson Smith](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Jack_Wilkinson_Smith.jpg/1280px-Jack_Wilkinson_Smith.jpg)
Los Angeles Times · CC BY 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jack_Wilkinson_Smith.jpg

## About Jack Wilkinson Smith

Jack Wilkinson Smith (1873–1949) was an American painter whose identity is represented in several major cultural-authority systems, including Getty’s Union List of Artist Names, VIAF, Wikidata, and the Library of Congress authority network. These linked records help distinguish him from people with similar names and provide a stable basis for matching catalogues, collection records, and auction listings. The available research pack securely supports his nationality, profession, and life years, but it does not provide enough institution-grade detail to assign him to a particular movement or to describe specific subjects, techniques, periods, or named series. Collectors may encounter works catalogued as paintings under his name, but more precise descriptions should be assessed from the individual object and its documentation. This page therefore keeps the biographical profile deliberately focused while connecting the artist’s established identity to relevant auction records.

## Common works and media

The available authority sources consistently identify Jack Wilkinson Smith as a painter, making paintings the best-supported general work type for auction and appraisal matching. The collected material does not reliably identify particular painting media, recurring subjects, named series, prints, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or editioned works. Individual objects should therefore be described according to their observable materials, inscriptions, dimensions, and accompanying documentation rather than assigned to an unsupported body of work.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal of a work attributed to Jack Wilkinson Smith should begin by confirming that the artist identification corresponds to the authority records linked on this page. The collected evidence supports paintings as the broad relevant category, but it does not establish narrower material, subject, series, or period groupings. Market assessment should therefore rely on object-specific documentation and genuinely comparable public auction records rather than assumptions drawn from the artist’s name alone. Where suitable records are available, sale date, realized price, catalogue attribution, and similarity between the subject work and the comparison lots can provide context. The present source pack does not support a price forecast, market trend, scarcity claim, or category premium.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. Source gaps are retained rather than filled with unsupported biographical or market claims.

## Sources

- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95853203/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43137670
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500027814
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2010175310
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Wilkinson_Smith
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/jack-wilkinson-smith/
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/73441