# Orville Bulman artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/orville-bulman/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:56:33.819Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting

## About Orville Bulman

Orville Bulman (1904–1978) was an American artist whose public authority records establish his identity and life years. A secondary biographical account describes him as a businessman who became a painter, operated a gallery on Worth Avenue in Palm Beach, Florida, and produced more than 2,000 paintings during his career. That account helps explain why collectors may encounter his name on paintings and in auction records, although the collected sources do not identify a formal movement, school, recurring subject, or documented series. For entity matching, the strongest identifiers in this source pack are his Wikidata and VIAF records; VIAF also connects his name to a Library of Congress authority record. Appraisily therefore describes Bulman as a documented American painter while leaving stylistic, thematic, and catalogue-level claims open until stronger museum, estate, or scholarly evidence becomes available.

## Common works and media

Paintings are the only work type clearly documented in the collected biographical material. The source pack does not provide enough evidence to characterize Bulman's usual subjects, techniques, formats, periods, or series, or to establish whether prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, or editioned works commonly appear under his name.

## Market and appraisal context

The available source pack supports paintings as the clearest work type and confirms that public auction-price material is associated with Bulman on Appraisily. It does not provide detailed lot descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, dimensions, condition reports, provenance, or attribution language. A market comparison should therefore use matched public auction records only after confirming the artist identity and checking that the object is comparable in medium and work type. Judgments about subject, period, quality, rarity, or price direction require lot-level evidence beyond this pack. The authority records help resolve identity, but they do not establish authenticity or value for an individual object.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched artist identities with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile distinguishes authority-supported identity facts from biographical and market details that still require stronger evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43128074
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/9800116/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orville_Bulman
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/orville-bulman/