# Martha Cahoon artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/martha-cahoon/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:08:15.896Z
Quality: low confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American

## About Martha Cahoon

Martha Cahoon (1905–1999) is identified in the collected authority data as an American artist. The English-language biography in the source pack also describes her as the wife and business partner of artist Ralph Eugene Cahoon Jr. Beyond those basic points, the available public evidence is unusually sparse: several authority records were identified but could not be read during collection, and the retrieved excerpts do not establish her training, artistic movement, working methods, subjects, or documented body of work. Collectors may encounter her name in auction databases—the Appraisily input associates 304 records with this entity—but that count does not prove that every catalog attribution is correct. This profile therefore remains deliberately narrow while linking stable authority records for entity matching. Additional museum, scholarly, or catalogue evidence is needed before presenting a fuller account of her career or associating her with particular media and themes.

## Common works and media

The retrieved sources identify Martha Cahoon as an artist but do not document the media, subjects, editions, series, or work types most commonly associated with her. Paintings, drawings, prints, decorative works, and other categories should not be labeled as characteristic without stronger museum, scholarly, catalogue, or detailed auction-house evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by confirming that a catalogued work belongs to this Martha Cahoon entity, especially because the collected sources provide little descriptive art-historical evidence. The available input associates 304 auction records with the public artist page, but record count alone does not establish authorship, authenticity, condition, or present value. When complete sale records are available, an appraiser can compare catalogued medium, dimensions, subject, date, attribution wording, provenance, condition, sale date, realized price, and genuinely similar lots. These are appraisal questions, not artist-specific findings established by this source pack. No price trend, typical range, or market premium is asserted here because the retrieved evidence does not support one.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine carefully bounded identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Sparse or unavailable evidence is identified rather than filled with unsupported claims.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6774357
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Cahoon
- Wikipedia: https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AB%D8%A7_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%88%D9%86
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500402875
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/63854272/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr89018215
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/103849
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/martha-cahoon/