# Mary Faulconer artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/mary-faulconer/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:31:02.055Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting, Illustration, Graphic design

## About Mary Faulconer

Mary Faulconer was an American painter, illustrator, and graphic designer born in 1912. Authority records from Wikidata, Getty ULAN, and VIAF align on her identity, while VIAF also records Mary Fullerton as an alternate name form. The available public sources do not establish a death date, training, geographic base, movement affiliation, named series, or characteristic subjects, so those details should not be inferred. Collectors may encounter her name on paintings and on material connected with illustration or graphic design, but an object should be matched through signatures, labels, inscriptions, publication context, and provenance rather than name alone. This is especially important because the alternate name can retrieve unrelated people and images. Appraisily therefore treats the authority-file identity as the reliable starting point and leaves broader stylistic or biographical claims open until museum, archival, or catalogue evidence can substantiate them.

## Common works and media

Works encountered under Mary Faulconer’s name may be catalogued as paintings, illustrations, or graphic-design material, reflecting the professional roles recorded by authority sources. The current evidence does not establish preferred supports, specific techniques, recurring subjects, edition practices, or named bodies of work. Those characteristics should be documented from the individual object and corroborated through reliable archival, publication, exhibition, or auction records.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by confirming that a work is attributable to this Mary Faulconer, rather than another person returned under the alternate name Mary Fullerton. Relevant object-level evidence may include signature form, inscriptions, labels, publication history, provenance, medium, dimensions, date, and condition, together with a clear connection to her documented practices as a painter, illustrator, or graphic designer. The source pack contains authority records but no accessible major-auction-house biography, catalogue raisonné, edition information, or public realized-price examples. Market conclusions should therefore rely on comparable lots only after identity and object type have been reconciled. Attribution wording, condition, provenance, and the closeness of comparables may materially affect an appraisal; this profile does not support a price forecast.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/73094200/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62599848
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500125904