# Jonas Lie artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:56:25.904Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1880-04-29
- Death date: 1940-01-18
- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Jonas Lie](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Jonas_Lie_painter.jpg/1280px-Jonas_Lie_painter.jpg)
Smithsonian Institution from United States · No restrictions
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jonas_Lie_painter.jpg

## About Jonas Lie

Jonas Lie (1880–1940) was a Norwegian-born American painter and teacher whose identity is represented in Wikidata, Getty ULAN, MoMA, and library authority records. The collected sources associate him especially with colorful views of New England coastlines, scenes of New York City, and a group of paintings devoted to construction of the Panama Canal. These subjects connect his work with the broader history of early twentieth-century American landscape and urban painting, although the available evidence does not establish a specific formal movement. Collectors may encounter Lie through coastal landscapes, metropolitan views, and canal-construction subjects, each of which should be identified on its own evidence rather than treated as interchangeable. His Norwegian birth and American career also make precise entity matching important: the painter should not be confused with other people named Jonas Lie. Institutional identifiers and a documented Smithsonian portrait help anchor the correct artist record.

## Common works and media

The source pack identifies Lie principally as a painter. Documented subject groups include colorful New England coastal landscapes, New York City views, and paintings of Panama Canal construction. The collected evidence does not verify a recurring practice in prints, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or numbered editions, so such classifications should be assigned only when the individual work and its documentation support them.

## Market and appraisal context

Within the available evidence, subject is the clearest starting point for market comparison. A New England coastal landscape should be compared with related coastal paintings, while a New York urban scene or Panama Canal construction picture belongs in a different subject group. Sale date and realized price should be considered together when sufficiently similar public auction records are available. This source pack does not include accessible major-auction-house lot analysis, so it cannot support a price trend, scarcity claim, or asserted premium for any subject. It also does not establish how attribution, date, dimensions, condition, or provenance affect Lie's market. Those questions require examination of the individual object and verified, closely comparable lots.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6272171
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500029231
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/3544
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/49919
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Lie_(painter)
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Lie_(peintre)
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/jonas-lie/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jonas_Lie_painter.jpg