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Artwork appraisals in Arkansas for donations, estate tax, insurance, and divorce, prepared in accordance with USPAP and IRS requirements. AppraiseItNow appraises paintings, sculptures, prints, photography, and mixed media across Arkansas, including Little Rock, Fayetteville, and Fort Smith.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT ANTIQUE ARTWORK APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, ARKANSAS COURTS, LENDERS, INSURERS, AND MORE.
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Owner & CEO
Joe founded AppraiseItNow to make a certified, USPAP-compliant appraisal as simple to order as anything else online. A former Bain & Company strategy consultant, Joe leads the entire team and specializes in strategy, growth, and the firm's tech capabilities.
Personal Property Appraiser
ISA Accredited Member with 30 years in the trade, from running estate sales and an auction gallery to appraising luxury apparel, furniture, artwork, antiques, and business assets, primarily for IRS tax filings.
Personal Property Appraiser
ISA Accredited Member specializing in Asian art, with a Master's from SOAS and a Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art. Ashley chairs the ISA's Antiques, Furnishings, and Decorative Arts committee and appraises for charitable donation, insurance, and equitable distribution.
Client Success Manager
Manages each engagement from the first enquiry to the delivered report, and keeps you posted at every step along the way.
International Society of AppraisersAccredited Member
The Appraisal FoundationAuthorized by Congress as the source of appraisal standardsAppraiseItNow appraises antique artwork in Arkansas for charitable gifts, estate and gift tax filings, insurance schedules, and divorce settlements. Most of this work is done without travel: we read a piece from images of the front, the back, the signature and any labels, together with whatever purchase papers and exhibition history the owner still holds.
What we value
Oils, watercolors, drawings, prints, bronze and stone sculpture, quilts and textile pieces, and Arkansas folk art all come through. Attribution, condition and the sale record behind a comparable do the work here, never a consumer price guide.
Which value applies
A charitable gift and a date of death filing both take fair market value, an insurance schedule takes what replacement would cost, and a settlement after a loss nets out the cost of selling. The standard sits on the first page of the report.
Condition evidence
Overcleaning, relining, retouch and a replaced panel each move a number, and the report shows by how much and why. Household contents often arrive in the same assignment and are valued from the same set of images.
Who reads the report decides what it has to show. We write for the file the figure lands in, whether that is a tax return, a policy endorsement or a pleading in a county court, and the evidence behind the number is laid out the same way in each.
Donations
The deduction a donor claims has to be supported by a valuation prepared for that purpose, with the appraiser's qualifications and the basis for the figure stated on the page. We write it so the return preparer can attach it without coming back for more.
Divorce and probate
Judges and opposing counsel test how a value was reached, not merely what it came to. Every comparable sale we rely on is identified, dated and adjusted in writing, so the conclusion can be followed by somebody who has never seen the piece and has no reason to take our word for it.
Artwork kept for pleasure is one thing; artwork held as inventory or as an investment is another, and Arkansas writes the second onto its personal property rolls. Two rules decide how a holding is measured and when the money is owed.
Dealers and galleries
Average stock
How a gallery's holdings are measured
Arkansas assesses property according to its value on January 1, but stocks of merchants are assessed instead at the value of the average stock in possession or under control during the year immediately preceding that date. Anyone holding property bought with a view to selling it at a profit, or consigned to them from outside Arkansas to be sold inside it, is a merchant for this purpose, and a gallery that has only just opened takes the value of its property at the time of assessment.
Arkansas DFA, Personal Property Appraisal Manual (A.C.A. 26-26-1201, 26-26-1203)
Payment
October 15
The last day to pay without a penalty
Personal property taxes are due and payable at the county collector's office between the first business day of March and October 15 inclusive. Anything unpaid after October 15 is delinquent, and the collector extends a penalty of ten percent against the taxpayer. A collection held for investment that has reached the rolls runs on that clock like any other taxable property.
Arkansas DFA, Personal Property Appraisal Manual (A.C.A. 26-36-201)
What clients say we are known for
Across 80+ published AppraiseItNow reviews the picture is consistent: every one is from a client who paid us for an appraisal, and the three things they raise most often are that they would hire us again, how quickly we answer, and how much research is visible in the report.
The appraisal was done very well. Since he was a local artist here in Charleston, SC, they took the time to study and review Jim Booth’s art. His work has made him extremely famous, which can make an appraisal challenging, but they did a superb job and clearly explained how they arrived at the appraisal value. I highly recommend Appraise It Now and will use them again for all my artwork.
Artwork Appraisal for Insurance Coverage
AppraiseItNow did an excellent job appraising our unique art collection. Joe was always prompt and responsive, and he and his team delivered a thorough, well-supported appraisal in just a couple of weeks, even during the holiday season. I was genuinely impressed. Thank you for the great work!
Artwork Appraisal for Insurance Coverage
AppraiseItNow was amazing! My father passed with a large volume of artwork & I had no idea what it was worth. Their team was incredibly helpful and quick to respond with text and/or email to any questions as well as a status update along the way. Highly recommend!
Artwork Appraisal for Probate
I recently requested a retroactive appraisal for fine art from AppraiseItNow. I received excellent service from intake to delivery. The appraisal was delivered on time and the content of the appraisal absolutely met my expectations!
Artwork Appraisal
From the start they were very responsive, price competitive, and had a quick turn around time. Thank you so much to Joe who was very sweet in responding to my emails; I am looking forward to utilizing AppraiseItNow for many years to come.
Very thorough and professional — great communication and outstanding service. Highly impressed with their work!
Given the USPAP-compliant nature of AppraiseItNow’s appraisal reports, we prepare our deliverables for major legal, tax, and financial reporting purposes for individual and commercial clients.
Popular uses of our appraisal reports include:
Enough for another appraiser to follow the reasoning: attribution, title, date, medium, dimensions, signatures and marks, plus condition evidence including damage, restoration, and high-resolution front and back photographs. Provenance, gallery labels, invoices, and catalogue raisonne references are material because they confirm authenticity and market acceptance.
Yes. Insurance scheduling uses retail replacement value while estates and equitable distribution use fair market value, and marketable cash value nets out selling costs. The report must define its value standard explicitly, because the same painting carries different numbers under each.
Generally at the time of the hearing. Arkansas is an equitable-distribution state, and its courts tie valuation to the evidence presented when property is divided, with discretion to pick another date where fairness requires it.
By statute, at the price the assessor believes it could bring at that time and place. A.C.A. §26-26-1202(c)(2) covers personal property with no well-fixed local value, and the law rejects forced-sale and auction prices as the criterion of true value, so distressed results do not set the standard. Only up to 20% of the resulting market value becomes assessed value.
To the assessor first, then the Board of Equalization. Arkansas practice is to raise valuation disputes informally with the county assessor and, if unresolved, appeal to the local Board of Equalization with supporting evidence. A documented independent appraisal showing comparable sales is exactly the evidence that process is designed to weigh.
