# Roger Tory Peterson artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1908-08-28
- Death date: 1996-07-28
- Nationality: American
- Common media: Illustration, Painting, Works on paper and prints

## Portrait

![Roger Tory Peterson](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3c/Roger_Tory_Peterson.jpg)
Roger Tory Peterson · see-source-page
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Tory_Peterson

## About Roger Tory Peterson

Roger Tory Peterson (1908–1996) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, writer, conservationist, educator, artist, and illustrator. His public identity sits at the meeting point of scientific observation and visual communication, with bird life and natural history providing the clearest context for his imagery. Sources in the collected pack consistently identify him as both a naturalist and an illustrator, while French- and German-language biographies also describe him as a painter or illustrator. No specific fine-art movement is securely established by the available evidence, so his work is better contextualized through natural-history illustration and twentieth-century conservation than assigned to a stylistic school. Collectors may encounter paintings, illustrations, works on paper, prints, editions, and other objects catalogued under his name. Because Peterson was also a prolific writer and educator, careful identification should distinguish original artwork from reproductions, printed publications, and editioned material before appropriate auction comparisons are selected.

## Common works and media

The collected sources support illustration and painting as Peterson's principal creative contexts, with birds, ornithology, natural history, and conservation providing the strongest subject associations. Auction and appraisal material may also be catalogued as works on paper, prints, editions, or mixed media. Each object should be classified carefully because original paintings and illustrations, editioned prints, reproductions, books, and other printed material can have materially different market contexts.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by identifying the object's medium, dimensions, date, authorship status, and whether it is an original, reproduction, or editioned work. Appraisily's matched records place objects attributed to Peterson in broad categories that include paintings, works on paper, prints, editions, mixed media, and decorative art. Supported valuation considerations include condition and restoration, signature or inscriptions, edition information, attribution confidence, provenance, exhibition or catalogue references, subject matter, rarity, and recent comparable public sales. Broad category labels should not be treated as evidence that every object type is characteristic of Peterson's practice. Public auction results are useful comparison points, but incomplete feeds, private transactions, changing attributions, and differences in fee reporting can limit direct comparisons.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q583448
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Tory_Peterson
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Tory_Peterson
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Tory_Peterson
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/roger-tory-peterson/
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb119193691
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/98116143/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79120711
- Encyclopædia Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Roger-Tory-Peterson