# Walter Inglis Anderson artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/walter-inglis-anderson/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:06:00.303Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting

## About Walter Inglis Anderson

Walter Inglis Anderson (1903–1965) is identified by Wikidata as an American artist and by a separate biographical source as a painter and writer. His identity is reinforced by institutional authority records, including IdRef and the National Gallery of Art, where he appears under the shorter name Walter Anderson. These records help distinguish him from other artists sharing the surname and provide stable identifiers for entity matching. Appraisily's current artist page associates 389 auction records with this public identity, which helps explain why collectors may encounter his name in resale and appraisal research. The present source pack does not provide enough museum or scholarly text to characterize movements, regional schools, signature subjects, or named series with confidence. This profile therefore limits its art-historical claims to his documented American identity and roles as artist, painter, and writer while preserving authority links for future enrichment.

## Common works and media

The available evidence directly associates Anderson with painting and writing. It does not document enough object-level detail to identify particular paint media, print techniques, drawings, ceramics, sculptures, posters, editioned works, recurring subjects, or named series with confidence. An appraisal should classify the physical object from its documented materials, technique, inscriptions, and catalogue history rather than assigning a medium or body of work from the artist name alone.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily currently associates 389 auction records with Walter Inglis Anderson, but that count is a discovery signal rather than a valuation conclusion. The collected evidence does not include individual lot descriptions or auction results, so it cannot establish artist-specific price trends, category premiums, or relationships between object characteristics and realized prices. A defensible appraisal should first confirm that a work belongs to this Walter Anderson through the linked authority identities. Relevant public sales can then be evaluated only after their cataloguing and comparability have been checked at the lot level. Results should remain tied to the documented object and sale context rather than being treated as a single artist-wide price benchmark.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. This profile currently has stronger identity evidence than lot-level market detail.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7965210
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/080887139
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.27963.html
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Inglis_Anderson
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/walter-inglis-anderson/