# Queenie Mckenzie artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:30:14.501Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Death date: 1998-11-16
- Nationality: Australian
- Movements: East Kimberley School
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Queenie Mckenzie](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/82/Photo_of_Queenie_McKenzie.jpg)
Queenie McKenzie · see-source-page
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queenie_McKenzie

## About Queenie Mckenzie

Queenie Mckenzie, more commonly catalogued as Queenie McKenzie and Queenie McKenzie (Nakarra), was an Aboriginal Australian artist associated with the East Kimberley region of Western Australia. Authority records generally place her birth around 1930 and her death in 1998, although a public biography gives an earlier approximate birth year, leaving her birth chronology unresolved. She was born at Old Texas Station near the Ord River and is associated with the East Kimberley School of painting. Authority records connect her name with works concerning country, landscape, bush life, community history, and religious narratives. These themes place her work within a regional and cultural context that should remain central when identifying or cataloguing an object. Collectors may encounter her through paintings and other broadly classified auction records, but a name match alone is insufficient: inscriptions, provenance, subject, medium, date, and documented attribution should all be examined together.

## Common works and media

Public identity records most clearly associate Queenie McKenzie with painting and with subjects involving country, landscape, bush life, community history, and cultural or religious narratives. Appraisily's auction index also contains broadly classified records under works on paper, prints, mixed media, sculpture, decorative art, and editions. Because auction-category labels can be imprecise, objects outside painting should be assessed through their specific medium, inscriptions, provenance, edition details, and attribution rather than assumed to be typical works by the artist.

## Market and appraisal context

Queenie McKenzie's public auction history provides useful comparison points, but valuation should begin with genuinely similar works. Medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, restoration, inscriptions, provenance, exhibition history, and attribution confidence can all affect comparability. Edition information also matters when the object is a print or another editioned work. Appraisily's matched records span several broad catalog categories, although those classifications should not be treated as proof that every category is characteristic of her established practice. Realized prices may also be reported under differing fee conventions. A considered appraisal should therefore compare like with like, examine recent public sales, and account for incomplete feeds, private transactions, and any unresolved questions about authorship or condition.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q168302
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/100694063/
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG130179
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2009061501
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queenie_McKenzie
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queenie_McKenzie
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/queenie-mckenzie/