# James Christensen artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/james-christensen/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:41:27.004Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting, Illustration

## About James Christensen

James C. Christensen (1942–2017), also identified as James Calvin Christensen, was an American painter and illustrator known for religious and fantasy imagery. Public authority records from Wikidata, VIAF, and the Getty Union List of Artist Names distinguish him from other people named James Christensen and support the core identity used on this page. Available biographical summaries describe an imaginative practice informed by myths, fables, fantasy, and other narrative sources. These themes place his work within fantasy and illustrative art rather than establishing membership in a specific historical movement. Collectors may encounter his name in connection with paintings and illustrative compositions featuring invented worlds, symbolic figures, or religious subjects. The collected evidence does not provide a documented chronology of stylistic periods, named series, or a catalogue raisonné, so individual works should be described according to their observable medium, subject, inscriptions, and supporting documentation rather than assigned to an unsupported phase or series.

## Common works and media

The supported work types are paintings and illustrations. Available summaries associate Christensen's work with fantasy, religious imagery, myths, fables, and imaginative narratives. The source pack does not substantiate particular materials, print editions, sculptures, ceramics, posters, named series, or edition sizes, so those classifications should be added only when confirmed for the individual object.

## Market and appraisal context

The available source pack identifies Christensen primarily as a painter and illustrator associated with fantasy and religious subjects, but it does not contain accessible major-auction-house records or detailed comparable lots. Consequently, this profile does not infer price direction, scarcity, edition information, or artist-specific valuation rules. A defensible appraisal should first establish that the object and its documentation correspond to James C. Christensen rather than another person with the same surname and given name. It should then compare the work with relevant public auction records by work type and subject when sufficiently documented records are available. Asking prices or loosely attributed marketplace listings should not be treated as equivalent to verified realized sales.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6130675
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/47568486/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500111837
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_C._Christensen
- Wikipedia: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_C._Christensen
- Wikipedia: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81