# John Fery artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/john-fery/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:30:10.851Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Austrian, American
- Common media: Landscape painting, Large-format painting

## About John Fery

John Fery (1859–1934) was an Austrian-born American painter best known for outdoor views of the western United States. Wikidata and VIAF authority records align on his identity and lifespan, while the collected public biography describes a career centered on landscape subjects. The Great Northern Railway is reported as his largest customer, connecting his imagery with the promotion of western travel and scenery. Fery also worked at an unusually large scale: some paintings are described as exceeding one hundred square feet. Collectors therefore encounter his name most often in connection with expansive western landscape paintings, although every auction listing still requires careful confirmation of its title, medium, dimensions, date, signature, condition, and attribution. Public authority data for Fery is stronger than the collected art-historical documentation. Because this source pack contains no substantive museum, university, estate, or foundation biography, detailed accounts of his career and railway relationship should be treated cautiously pending stronger scholarly corroboration.

## Common works and media

Landscape paintings and other fine-art paintings are the best-supported work types associated with John Fery. The collected biography particularly connects him with large outdoor scenes of the western United States, including unusually large-format works. Appraisily's auction classifications also contain works on paper and prints, but their frequency and attribution should be confirmed by inspecting individual lots. Sculpture, mixed-media, decorative-art, and edition labels appear in the broad market taxonomy but should not be assumed characteristic of Fery without lot-level evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected Appraisily snapshot reports 92 matched auction records, including 71 priced records, with sale dates from 2000 through 2026. Its observed results range from $406 to $19,000, with a reported median near $4,112. These historical figures describe a mixed public-auction dataset, not a price prediction for an individual work. A useful comparison should match the object's medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, restoration history, provenance, signature, and attribution confidence as closely as possible. Large-format landscapes may not be comparable with smaller works or works on paper. Reporting conventions can also differ by auction house, particularly regarding buyer premiums and fees, while private transactions and incomplete auction feeds remain outside or only partly represented in public data.

## Appraisily data basis

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

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11341851
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/43533232/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500028811
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fery
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/john-fery/