# Richard Blow artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/richard-blow/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:19:21.817Z
Quality: low confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting

## About Richard Blow

Richard Blow is identified by Wikidata as an American painter who lived from 1904 to 1983. The collected identity links also point to VIAF and the Library of Congress, although those authority pages could not be read by the research harness because their requests were rate-limited. Beyond that basic identification, the available public source pack does not establish his training, places of activity, artistic movement, specific painting media, subjects, exhibitions, or named bodies of work. Collectors may encounter the name through Appraisily’s auction-record index, but the supplied evidence does not show whether every indexed lot belongs to this same Richard Blow. This page therefore keeps the biography deliberately narrow and avoids assigning a school, style, or oeuvre without stronger museum, scholarly, estate, or catalogue evidence. Further authority and collection research is needed before expanding the artist narrative.

## Common works and media

The source pack identifies Richard Blow only as a painter. It does not establish which painting media, formats, subjects, styles, periods, or series are characteristic of his work, and it provides no reliable evidence that prints, drawings, sculptures, editions, posters, or ceramics should be associated with him. Individual auction records should therefore be reviewed before describing any work type as common.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected Appraisily input associates 204 records with the name Richard Blow, but the artist-page request was rate-limited and the source pack contains no underlying lot descriptions, results, or images. The available evidence therefore cannot support a price trend, representative range, or dependable breakdown of the works appearing at auction. Market interpretation should begin by confirming that each record concerns the American painter born in 1904 rather than another person with the same name. Artist-specific appraisal conclusions should wait until the underlying auction cataloguing and supporting documentation can be reviewed and compared.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Richard Blow, the current identity evidence is limited and the collected auction signal could not be verified at lot level.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22094675
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/7325959/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2002020392
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/richard-blow/