# Sterling Boyd Strauser artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:32:21.213Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting, Works on paper and prints, Collage and mixed media

## About Sterling Boyd Strauser

Sterling Boyd Strauser (1907–1995) is identified by Wikidata and international library authority records as an American painter. His identity is linked across Getty’s Union List of Artist Names, VIAF, and the Library of Congress, providing a stable foundation for matching his name to artworks and auction records. The authority material associates Strauser with paintings and with titles referring to flowers, portraits, city subjects, and collage, including Pear Blossoms, Spring Floral, April Visit to the City, and Collage of Burned Nevelson. These references indicate a varied body of work, although the collected sources do not establish a formal movement, school, or documented series. Collectors are most likely to encounter Strauser through paintings and other fine-art lots appearing in public auction data. Because detailed institutional biography is limited in this source pack, individual works should be assessed through their physical characteristics, documentation, and relationship to well-matched examples rather than through broad stylistic labels.

## Common works and media

Painting is the best-supported medium in the collected identity and auction sources. Authority-linked titles also point to floral subjects, portraits or figures, city imagery, and collage. The auction index groups additional records under works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions, but those broad classifications require object-level verification and should not be treated as evidence that every category is typical of Strauser’s practice.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily’s public market index contains matched auction records for Sterling Boyd Strauser, led by fine art and painting while also assigning some records to works on paper, prints, mixed media, editions, and other broad categories. For appraisal purposes, the strongest comparisons are works aligned in medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, and attribution. Signatures and inscriptions should be examined alongside provenance, exhibition history, catalogue references, and any restoration. Edition details matter when the object is a print or other multiple. Public realized prices provide useful reference points, but they are not automatic valuations: reporting practices may differ, private transactions may be absent, and a superficially similar lot may have materially different authorship, condition, or history.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine authority-based artist identity research with matched public auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Public results are evidence inputs, not substitutes for authentication, condition review, or a complete appraisal.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q94404007
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500055773
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/16957513/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2005057262
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/sterling-boyd-strauser/