# Ynez Johnston artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:45:23.728Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting, Printmaking and graphic art, Mixed media, Sculpture

## Portrait

![Ynez Johnston](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/69/Ynez_Johnston.jpg)
Ynez Johnston · see-source-page
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ynez_Johnston

## About Ynez Johnston

Ynez Johnston (1920–2019) was an American painter, sculptor, printmaker, and educator whose career crossed several media. She spent her early life in the San Francisco Bay Area and moved to Los Angeles in 1949. Available biographical material associates her visual imagination with Byzantine art and with Tibetan, Indian, Mexican, and Nepalese art encountered through travel. These references are best understood as documented inspirations rather than evidence of membership in one formal movement. Johnston’s identity is reinforced by a MoMA artist profile and authority records maintained by Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, and the Library of Congress. Collectors may encounter her name on paintings, original prints and other graphic works, mixed-media pieces, and sculpture. Because her practice was broad, an artist-page match should be checked against the object’s medium, title, date, dimensions, signature or inscriptions, and documented history before an auction record is treated as comparable.

## Common works and media

Johnston worked in painting, printmaking, mixed media, and sculpture. Auction and appraisal searches may therefore surface paintings, original prints or other graphic works, layered mixed-media compositions, and three-dimensional pieces. Her documented inspirations include Byzantine art and artistic traditions encountered through travel in Tibet, India, Mexico, and Nepal, although the available source pack does not define a reliable list of recurring subjects or named series.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily’s collected signal lists 196 auction records under Ynez Johnston’s public identity, indicating that collectors may find a useful body of public sales to examine. Comparisons should first be separated by medium: a print, painting, mixed-media work, and sculpture should not be treated as interchangeable. For prints, edition and impression information may require review; across all categories, date, dimensions, condition, provenance, attribution, and inscriptions should be checked against closely comparable lots. The present source pack does not include the underlying lot descriptions or realized-price history, so it cannot support a price trend, typical value range, or claim about which category appears most frequently. Any appraisal conclusion should therefore be based on the specific object and verified public auction records.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available and sufficiently documented.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20981247
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/64816427/
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/2929
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500020303
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr96027068
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ynez_Johnston
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/ynez-johnston/