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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;verybrad, post: 34021, member: 37&quot;]While these may be well known local artists, they are not listed artists in the traditional sense.&nbsp; Being listed means that they can be found in national and international recognized art resources.&nbsp; These include Who&#039;s Who in American Art, the Benezit index of artists, and the art sales reference guides. The standard for practical use in the US used to be Davenport&#039;s.&nbsp; Today, much of this is on-line. The on-line resources are artprice.com, artnet.com, askart.com, blouinartinfo.com, among others.</p><p><br /></p><p>Artists become listed in a couple of ways. Having some renown, inclusion in respected art organizations, and/or academic credentials can get artists listed in the indices of artists. However, most artists become listed through a record of art sales at auction by the handful of reporting auction houses.&nbsp; I say handful but, for example, art price has about 4500 auction houses reporting to them.&nbsp; These are not your local mom and pop auction houses but the more established auction houses throughout the world. </p><p><br /></p><p>As more and more information becomes readily available through the internet, the question of who are listed artists becomes a bit more muddy. How the various on-line resources gather their information might not be nearly as stringent as in the past. For example, I believe that at one point, one of the larger on-line resources allowed members to submit names for inclusion.&nbsp; We now have worthpoint reporting ebay sales but I don&#039;t believe that anyone doing serious art research would take a report there as having the artists as being listed. I tend to use artprice for American art and still have my trusty Davenport&#039;s for back-up.&nbsp; I often look for non-American artists in artnet.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most of this becomes rather moot if you are buying art for yourself based on what you like. If you are looking at art as an investment or a source of profit, you would do well to pay attention to such things. Your chances for success will go up the more you know about the art market and use the tools that are out there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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