# Vincent Smith artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/vincent-smith/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:37:07.352Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting, Printmaking

## About Vincent Smith

Vincent DaCosta Smith (1929–2003) was an American artist whose documented roles include painter, printmaker, and teacher. He is especially associated with representations of Black life, giving his work an important social and cultural context within twentieth-century American art. Collectors may encounter his name on paintings as well as prints and other works on paper. Those different formats matter when identifying a work and comparing it with relevant records. Smith's relatively common surname and the existence of unrelated people named Vincent Smith make careful entity matching particularly important: a signature or auction attribution should be connected to Vincent DaCosta Smith through the work's medium, subject, date, and supporting documentation. Authority records from Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, the Library of Congress, and MoMA provide stable identifiers that can help distinguish this artist in collection, catalogue, and auction data.

## Common works and media

Works encountered in appraisal contexts may include paintings, prints, and other works on paper. Depictions addressing Black life are documented as a characteristic subject. The available source pack does not establish named series, edition sizes, specific print processes, or a complete catalogue of media, so more precise classifications should be based on the individual work and its documentation.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should begin by confirming that a work attributed to Vincent Smith belongs to Vincent DaCosta Smith, the American painter and printmaker who died in 2003. Medium and work type are useful starting points because both painting and printmaking are documented parts of his practice. Subject matter related to Black life may add contextual support, but subject alone cannot establish authorship. The collected sources do not provide sufficiently detailed auction results to support price forecasts or market-trend claims. A defensible valuation therefore requires comparison with correctly matched public sales, with attention to the particular work rather than relying on the shared artist name or on results for unrelated people named Vincent Smith.

## 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. Authority identifiers are used to reduce mistaken matches between artists who share similar names.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21293102
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/3389073/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500121332
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no98121987
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/5495
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_D._Smith