Does anyone know this artist?

[mrsboyink]

I got these ink drawings at an estate sale. They're signed, so I thought it would be easy enough to find out something about them, but the artist seems not to be. I couldn't find a recognized artist, or any connection to the house, the city, surrounding areas, or within 2,000 listings of Lintons on wikitree. Not a D.J. Linton among them. They're marked as A/P's and dated '79. I want to keep "Rural Landscape," wonder if there's any value to "Cliff Dwelling." Oh, and they're possibly haunted with some connection to an Anna or Hannah. TIA.

[anthology-of-treasures]

Have you tried searching Google for various combinations of phrases and adding to those phrases as you find more information?

Determine what kind of print it is first by searching for artist printing techniques. You can always take it to a local musuem to identify the type of printing process (please don't ask them for the value or to i.d. the artist).

https://www.pookandpook.com/how-to-identify-works-on-paper/

Looks like it could be "Intaglio Printing".

So what do "Intaglio Printing" and "A/P" possible mean? An artist proof.

https://www.christies.com/features/Prints-Collecting-Guide-7471-1.aspx

As to identifying the name...

Try FindAGrave - there are sometimes biography information, newspaper death notices, and links to other relatives there. If this artist is a woman then the surname on her grave could be her original family name or her married name in which case you may need to find her marriage announcement or death notice from a newspaper. There are 15 names which those intitals and the last name. Sometimes graves might not have the middle initial (or be wrong) so search again without it.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/search?firstname=d&middlename=j&lastname=linton&birthyear=&birth...

Signup for a free trail account with Ancestry(.com) and cancel it if its no use for you.

Search Google for the artist name and the word "newspaper". There are several sites which allow you to look at old newspapers. These typically charge a monthly fee, but they often offer free OCR scans of the pages (some of these are not formatted correctly but you can distill the information ass the same). You might find an article on the artist such as a death notice, marriage, birth. Older local papers will often include local gossip.

A Google image search will reveal multiple Native American cliff dwelling sites.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Cliff+Dwelling&client=firefox-b-1-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0a...

And so on and so on... The above searches were completed in a couple minutes.

[maxine*j]

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@mrsboyink wrote:

I got these ink drawings at an estate sale. They're signed, so I thought it would be easy enough to find out something about them...  Oh, and they're possibly haunted with some connection to an Anna or Hannah. TIA.

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The fact is that many thousands of pretty good works of art are produced every day, every year, every decade. They're done not just by trained artists and professional artists, but by the inherently talented, students, and skilled amateurs. Only an infinitesimally small fraction of one per cent of those paintings will ever be sold, much less recognized, noted, catalogued, or otherwise become a part of any record.

In short, every signed work you find is a needle in a haystack.

As for being haunted...  Oh, my.