# John Caruthers Little artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/john-caruthers-little/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:14:39.746Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1928-02-20
- Death date: 2024-10-29
- Nationality: Canadian
- Common media: Oil painting

## About John Caruthers Little

John Caruthers Little (1928–2024) was a Canadian painter associated above all with views of Montreal and Quebec City. Public identity records connect him with the shorter professional name John Little. Available biographical summaries characterize him as a chronicler of Montreal's urban heritage, particularly its working-class neighborhoods, and identify oil painting as a principal medium. This focus gives his work a documentary dimension: collectors may encounter city scenes preserving streets, buildings, and neighborhood character amid urban change. The collected sources do not establish a named movement, formal series, or complete career chronology, so his documented places, subjects, and medium provide a firmer basis for describing the work than a speculative stylistic label. Appraisily's public market index also contains records matched under an expanded form of his name, making careful identity and signature comparison important when reviewing auction lots and potential comparables.

## Common works and media

The available biographical sources most clearly associate Little with oil paintings of Montreal and Quebec City, especially streets and working-class urban neighborhoods. Appraisily's auction index also places matched records in broad fine-art, painting, works-on-paper, and print categories, although the collected source pack does not establish that every listed category represents a characteristic part of his production. Medium, support, signature, inscriptions, dimensions, and subject should therefore be verified directly for each object.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's collected market page reports 51 matched auction records, including 42 priced records, across sale dates from 2002 through 2026. Its observed reported-price range is $900 to $30,680. These figures provide context rather than a valuation for any individual object. Relevant comparisons should account for medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, restoration, provenance, inscriptions, attribution confidence, and any exhibition or catalogue history. A city painting should be compared with works of similar format and subject rather than with the artist's entire record set. Reported totals may treat buyer premiums and fees differently, while private transactions and incomplete feeds may be absent.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, reported realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Private sales, incomplete feeds, and attribution changes may not be represented.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16090849
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500765447
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Little_(painter)
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Little_(peintre)
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/john-caruthers-little/