# Leonard Howard Reedy artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/leonard-howard-reedy/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:24:01.240Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American

## About Leonard Howard Reedy

Leonard Howard Reedy (1899–1956) was an American painter whose identity is represented in Wikidata, Getty's Union List of Artist Names, VIAF, and RKD. The collected authority records consistently identify him as an American artist, but this source pack does not provide exact birth and death dates, a detailed institutional biography, or reliable documentation of a particular movement, school, subject specialty, or career period. Those gaps make it prudent to identify Reedy through his full name, life years, nationality, and occupation without assigning a more specific art-historical label. Collectors encounter works attributed to Reedy through a substantial body of matched public auction records. Those records can help distinguish recurring auction presentations and comparable results, but individual objects still require examination of their medium, dimensions, date, inscriptions, condition, provenance, and attribution. Further museum or scholarly documentation would strengthen the account of his artistic development and typical subject matter.

## Common works and media

The collected market page groups Reedy auction records under fine art and paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions. These are broad auction classifications, not proof that he personally practiced every listed medium. A prospective Reedy work should therefore be classified from the object itself and compared with genuinely similar lots rather than with the artist-wide record pool.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's matched market index reports 258 records, including 190 priced records, over an observed 2001–2026 auction-date range. The published median realized result is approximately $460, with many cited comparables between $375 and $660 and an observed range from $50 to $5,875. These figures describe recorded public sales rather than a forecast for any particular work. A useful appraisal comparison should align medium, size, date, subject, condition, restoration history, signature or inscriptions, provenance, and attribution confidence. Edition information matters when applicable. Reported prices may also treat buyer premiums and fees differently, while private sales and incomplete auction feeds may remain outside the dataset.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine authority-based identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Public sales are a starting point; object-specific attribution, condition, provenance, and price-reporting conventions still require review.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52156948
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500095166
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96380464/
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/96818
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/leonard-howard-reedy/