John Cowan Templeton Paintings & Artwork for Sale | John Cowan Templeton Art Value Price Guide

May. 04, 2025
John Cowan (J.C.) Templeton (1880-1958)
Est: $400 - $800
Northwest Indiana Landscape 12" x 16" oil on board, signed lower right
Jacksons Auction & Real Estate Company
May. 05, 2024
John Cowan Templeton (1880-1958)
Est: $500 - $1,000
Winter Creek 14"x18" oil on board, signed lower right. Recently conserved; recent frame. Est. $500-$1,000
Jacksons Auction & Real Estate Company
Aug. 27, 2023
John Cowan (J.C.) Templeton
Est: $100 - $300
Dock Scene 13.5" x 17.5", Watercolor, Signed Lower Left
Jacksons Auction & Real Estate Company
Jan. 07, 2023
J.C. Templeton Dunes Landscape Watercolor On Paper
Est: -
Indiana Artist John Cowan Templeton Signed Dunes Landscape Watercolor on paper. Painting features a Fall Dunes scene. Framed under glass. Signed bottom right. Nice condition. Sight Measures 14" across 10' tall. Framed measures 24" across 20"tall. (4865)
Kraft Auction Service
Oct. 02, 2022
John Cowan Templeton
Est: $3,000 - $6,000
John Cowan Templeton (1880-1958) 30" x 34" oil on canvas, Indiana Dunes Summer Landscape, signed lower right. Recently conserved; original carved frame. The following biography is from the fineestateart.com website: John Cowan Templeton arrived to the Hammond, IN area in around 1908. He was a trained sign painter — a job which took him to many locations. In his free time he executed landscapes. In the 1910s he took a night job with Inland Steel and continued to paint with a particular emphasis on the Indiana Dunes. John C. Templeton moved to East Chicago in 1908, where he lived the rest of his life (1958). As an artist he was mostly self-developed, but he studied at the University of West Virginia, also in Nashville, Detroit, Phoenix, and in Italy. He was an exhibitor at the Northern Indiana Arts Association, the Hoosier Salon, and had a one-man show at the Chicago Galleries. He was an Inland Steel employee, painting in his free time and after he retired. He taught adults at Whiting High School, and also gave private lessons. He had a simple palate and painted many dunes scenes. You can see the bio on our site https://fineestateart.com/artists/john_cowan_templeton
Jacksons Auction & Real Estate Company
Apr. 16, 2022
J.C. Templeton "A Day At The Dunes" Watercolor
Est: -
Watercolor painting by Indiana Artist, John Cowan Templeton (1880 - 1958). "A Day At The Dunes" painting is signed in the lower right. Sight measures approximatley 11.5 across X 8.5" tall, framed it measures 14.75" across X12.75" tall.
Kraft Auction Service
Feb. 06, 2022
John Templeton (IN,IL,1880-1958) oil painting
Est: $475 - $625
ARTIST: John Cowan Templeton (Indiana, Illinois, 1880 - 1958) NAME: Sailboat MEDIUM: oil on canvas. Canvas applied to board. CONDITION: One scratch 3" long. No visible inpaint under UV light. SIGHT SIZE: 16 x 12 inches / 40 x 30 cm FRAME SIZE: unframed SIGNATURE: lower right SKU#: 119857 US Shipping $49 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: John Templeton seemed to have the artistic bent from birth. Born to Scottish settlers in Pennsylvania in 1880, he began to draw as a child. He became a house painter at 14 but practiced his artistic skills when he scraped the paint from old buckets and created his pictures on old window shades. He studied art at West Virginia University and traveled to San Francisco, Mexico and the Panama Canal, before returning home to marry his hometown sweetheart, Elizabeth Boyer in 1908. The couple came to the new city of East Chicago where Inland Steel had set up a plant in the city's Indiana Harbor section. Templeton painted the fancy gold script on tavern and doctors offices and in 1917 began working the late afternoon shift at Inland. He would come home and sleep for a few hours and then head out to the dunes to paint in the best early morning light. My mother just went along. If he went up to Michigan to paint, he dropped Mama off in town and she shopped, said Jean. Or more often, the whole family took the new South Shore train or went out Route 12 to the dunes. "We climbed the sand dunes. Old Mount Tom got climbed a lot while he painted for a few hours," said Templeton.John Templeton worked at Inland for nearly 30 years, and then at 70, another life began he went to Arizona and began painting watercolors for the first time. But his daughter remembered him not being fond of the medium.вЂњHe never thought he attained perfection. But I don't think any artist thinks he does. Several years later Templeton went to Rome to study with British instructors and painters, and he brought back vivid street scenes of rich brown stucco villages enlivened with flowers.He taught art classes throughout Northwest Indiana, founded the Northern Indiana Art Salon and was exhibiting member of the Hoosier Salon, the Indiana Society of Artists, the Brown County Artists and Chicago Galleries. He went on the win prizes at both salons and seemed to stretch his interest in painting until his death in 1958. A yeoman with the brush, he brought light to the canvas with impressionistic strokes of color. John Templeton was a painter, in every sense, whose talents and interests seemed to evolve with every brush stroke. A true Midwesterner, he had the adaptability of a pioneer and was able to mix careers as a steel worker in the hot strip mill with a thriving career painting signs in gold leaf. With brushes, he was an interior decorator and an art teacher. Always the experimenter, he became a trophy fisherman and helped develop successful lure techniques. And wanderlust stimulated his artistic sense to the end.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Jan. 15, 2022
John Cowan Templeton Dunes Landscape Watercolor
Est: -
Beautiful watercolor on paper painting by listed Indiana artist John Cowan Templeton. The painting features a dunes landscape with Lake Michigan in the background. Signed in the lower right. Framed, matted, and under glass. Sight measures approximately 15" across x 9-3/4" tall, framed it measures 22-1/2" across x 18-1/2" tall.
Kraft Auction Service
Nov. 21, 2021
John Cowan (J.C.) Templeton
Est: $200 - $400
Harbor Scene with Boats 14" x 18", Watercolor, Signed Lower Right
Jacksons Auction & Real Estate Company
Nov. 21, 2021
John Cowan (J.C.) Templeton
Est: $300 - $600
Indiana Dunes 10" x 15", Watercolor, Signed Lower Right
Jacksons Auction & Real Estate Company
Oct. 28, 2021
JOHN COWAN TEMPLETON - GROUP OF 4 SMALL STILL LIFES AND LANDSCAPES
Est: $200 - $400
Lot 133 John Cowan Templeton American (1880-1958) Group of 4 Small Still Lifes and Landscapes oil on canvas board each signed each: 4 x 5 inches Provenance: The Estate of Janet Gracey two framed; two unframed
Capsule Gallery Auction
Oct. 28, 2021
JOHN COWAN TEMPLETON - UNTITLED (SAILBOAT)
Est: $300 - $500
Lot 114 John Cowan Templeton American (1880-1958) Untitled (Sailboat) oil on canvas laid down to board signed lower right sight: 15 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches Provenance: The Estate of Janet Gracey
Capsule Gallery Auction
Jul. 29, 2021
JOHN COWAN TEMPLETON - UNTITLED (SAILBOAT)
Est: $500 - $800
Lot 63 John Cowan Templeton American (1880-1958) Untitled (Sailboat) oil on canvas laid down to board signed lower right sight: 15 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches Provenance: The Estate of Janet Gracey
Capsule Gallery Auction
Jul. 29, 2021
JOHN COWAN TEMPLETON - GROUP OF 4 SMALL STILL LIFES AND LANDSCAPES
Est: $400 - $600
Lot 58 John Cowan Templeton American (1880-1958) Group of 4 Small Still Lifes and Landscapes oil on canvas board each signed each: 4 x 5 inches Provenance: The Estate of Janet Gracey two framed; two unframed
Capsule Gallery Auction
Apr. 18, 2021
John Cowan (J.C.) Templeton (1880-1958)
Est: $200 - $400
Lakeside Cabin 8" x 11" watercolor, signed lower right. Recent frame.
Jacksons Auction & Real Estate Company
Apr. 18, 2021
John Cowan (J.C.) Templeton (1880-1958)
Est: $200 - $400
Lakeside Cabin 8" x 11" watercolor, signed lower right. Recent frame.
Jacksons Auction & Real Estate Company
Sep. 26, 2020
John Cowan Templeton Landscape Painting
Est: $250 - $500
John Cowan Templeton Landscape Painting. Annotation Verso. The Frame measures 21 1/4" x 25 1/4". The Sight measures 15 1/2" x 19 3/8"
RB Fine Arts
Jul. 19, 2020
John Cowan (J.C.) Templeton
Est: $300 - $600
Rural Indiana Farmhouse 12" x 16", Oil on Board, Signed Lower Right
Jacksons Auction & Real Estate Company
Jan. 18, 2020
Painting, John Cowan Templeton
Est: $200 - $400
John Cowan Templeton (American, 1880-1958), Rural Farmhouse, oil on canvas board, signed lower right, overall (with frame): 16.5"h x 20.5"w
Clars Auctions
Dec. 14, 2019
Painting, John Cowan Templeton
Est: $400 - $600
John Cowan Templeton (American, 1880-1958), Rural Farmhouse, oil on canvas board, signed lower right, overall (with frame): 16.5"h x 20.5"w
Clars Auctions
Oct. 20, 2019
John Cowan Templeton (American, 1880-1958) Watercolors on Paper
Est: $150 - $200
John Cowan Templeton (American, 1880-1958) Watercolors on Paper Undated, signed lower right, depicting the winter countryside having a double mat and burnished gold frame as well as (Attributed to) John Cowan Templeton, undated, unsigned, attribution en verso, sailboats on water having an ivory mat and grey wood frame Condition: Very Good to Good, one having foxing on paper throughout, other having no damage to art noted; light dirt accumulation; not examined out of the frame(s) Height: 10.00 inches, Width: 14.00 inches (larger sight) Frame Size: 17.00 inches by 21.00 inches Category: Fine Art > American Paintings Shipping Status: Leonard Auction, Inc. will provide direct shipping for this lot. Please visit our website for a shipping estimate. Approximate Sale Time: 1:15 pm CST Links to High Resolution Images: Image #1 Image #2 Image #3 Image #4 Image #5 Image #6 Image #7 Image #8 Image #9
Leonard Auction
Sep. 15, 2019
John Cowan Templeton (American, 1880-1958) Watercolor on Paper
Est: $150 - $250
John Cowan Templeton (American, 1880-1958) Watercolor on Paper Undated, signed lower right, depicting the winter countryside; double mat and burnished gold frame Condition: Very Good, no damage to art noted; light dirt accumulation; not examined out of the frame Height: 7.00 inches, Width: 9.00 inches (sight) Frame Size: 14.00 inches by 15.50 inches Category: Fine Art > American Paintings Shipping Status: Leonard Auction, Inc. will provide direct shipping for this lot. Please visit our website for a shipping estimate. Approximate Sale Time: 12:31 pm CST Links to High Resolution Images: Image #1 Image #2 Image #3 Image #4
Leonard Auction
Sep. 15, 2019
(Attributed to) John Cowan Templeton (American, 1880-1958) Watercolor on Paper
Est: $150 - $250
(Attributed to) John Cowan Templeton (American, 1880-1958) Watercolor on Paper Undated, attribution en verso, sailboats on water; ivory mat and grey wood frame Condition: Good, foxing on paper throughout; light dirt accumulation; not examined out of the frame Height: 10.00 inches, Width: 14.00 inches (sight) Frame Size: 17.00 inches by 21.00 inches Category: Fine Art > American Paintings Shipping Status: Leonard Auction, Inc. will provide direct shipping for this lot. Please visit our website for a shipping quote. Approximate Sale Time: 12:24 pm CST Links to High Resolution Images: Image #1 Image #2 Image #3 Image #4
Leonard Auction
Apr. 21, 2018
John C Templeton 26x30 O/C "Days Grow Shorter"
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
John C Templeton (IN/IL, 1880 - 1958) 26x30 , O/C , signed lower right , "Days Grow Shorter" , Depicting: Indiana Lake Michigan Dunes
Wickliff & Associates Auctioneers, Inc.
Jun. 26, 2016
J.C. Templeton: "The Sentinel is the Tallest"
Est: $1,500 - $3,000
24"x30", Oil on Canvas, Signed Lower Right
Jacksons Auction & Real Estate Company
Dec. 14, 2015
* John Templeton, (American, 1880-1958), Landscape
Est: $800 - $1,200
John Templeton (American, 1880-1958) Landscape oil on board signed J.C. Templeton (lower right) 12 x 16 inches.
Hindman
Jun. 06, 2015
John Cowan Templeton, (American, 1880-1958), Indiana Dunes, oil on canvas, 27" x 30.25"
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
John Cowan Templeton (American, 1880-1958) Indiana Dunes oil on canvas signed lower right 27" x 30.25"
Toomey & Co. Auctioneers
Dec. 05, 2004
John Cowan Templeton (American, 1880-1958), 'Indiana Dunes', c. 1930; oil/canvas 24in. x 30in. signed. He worked in Chicago, Hammond (IN), and Saugatuck (MI). He exhibited at the Hoosier Salon, Indianapolis Art Club, and the Northern Indiana Artist
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
John Cowan Templeton (American, 1880-1958), 'Indiana Dunes', c. 1930; oil/canvas 24in. x 30in. signed. He worked in Chicago, Hammond (IN), and Saugatuck (MI). He exhibited at the Hoosier Salon, Indianapolis Art Club, and the Northern Indiana Artist Salon. He also worked as a steelworker for 29 years at Inland Steel Co.
Toomey & Co. Auctioneers