# LeRoy Grannis artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:30:28.174Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Photography, Surf photography

## About LeRoy Grannis

LeRoy “Granny” Grannis (1917–2011) was an American photographer and surfer closely associated with surf photography. His best-known work records surfing and related sea imagery, particularly during the 1960s and 1970s as the sport’s visual culture gained a wider audience. Because Grannis participated in surfing as well as photographing it, collectors encounter his images as records of the activity and the community around it. His photographs appeal to collectors interested in surf history, sporting culture, and twentieth-century coastal imagery. In auction and appraisal settings, the work is most likely to appear as photographic prints or other works on paper, sometimes accompanied by edition, signature, inscription, or date information. The historical importance of an image should be considered separately from the qualities of the particular object offered. Medium, dimensions, printing or edition details, condition, provenance, subject, and attribution confidence can distinguish one example from another.

## Common works and media

Collectors commonly encounter Grannis through photographs of surfing and related sea imagery, especially subjects associated with the 1960s and 1970s. Auction listings may place these objects within broad photography, works-on-paper, print, or edition categories. Any stated date, size, signature, inscription, or edition information should be checked against the physical object and its cataloguing.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily’s public index contains matched auction records under Grannis’s name, but the available category descriptions are broad and the displayed totals are internally inconsistent: the narrative refers to 40 tracked lots while the data block lists 42 records, including 29 priced records. These records should therefore be treated as a starting set rather than a complete market. Useful comparisons align medium, dimensions, date or career period, condition, restoration history, signature or inscriptions, edition details, provenance, catalogue references, subject matter, and attribution confidence. Sale dates and realized prices also require like-for-like reading because reported totals may handle buyer premiums or fees differently. Private transactions, incomplete feeds, and later attribution changes may not be represented, so an observed median or range is not a price prediction.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1809703
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/39690712/
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb15550613r
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeRoy_Grannis
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeRoy_Grannis
- Wikipedia: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeRoy_Grannis
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/leroy-grannis/