We found a watercolor painting in our grandmother's basement dated1961, how can I find out what its worth is?

I don’t know where you live, but maybe there are in your country television programs like Antiques Road Show (in England) and Tussen Kunst & Kitsch (the Netherlands)?
In these shows people can bring their paintings, pottery, jewelry or other belongings to have them looked at for origin, originality, and value.

If I’m not mistaken, Paint-By-Number was an incredibly popular hobby in the 1950s and 60s. The painting you have was very likely done by a hobbyist.

Is there any way you can take a picture of the painting and post it here? That’d help a ton.

I don’t think it is a paint-by-numbers, thing, because we can see the pencil lines and little marks like that from where it was drawn. And as for getting a picture of it up, I will ASAP, My sister has our camera! :D

It costs a bit but you can have it appraised professionally. Just call an art museum.

@Seek_Kolinahr watercolor cannot be done as paint-by-numbers. That was oil paint.
@freestyletrue can you scan it and give us a link. Some on here are somewhat knowledgeable about art. Many art museum will identify it and tell you something about it for free; they just won’t give you a dollar value. Most likely it is the work of a talented hobbyust, but . . .

Go to ArtPrice and look up the artist. There will be a fee. It’s a very large database used by professional appraisers.

Check local school records. Perhaps he was an art teacher or a student.

Welcome to the United States in the 21st century. We find paintings in a basement, and don’t ask “do I like this well enough to hang it up”, we ask “I wonder how much I can sell this for”.

If it’s a watercolor, it might have been created by this Jon Kennedy. Many cartoonists are also good watercolor artists.

@frdelrosario….....Your comments hold true for the UK, too. And the problem? People will take art that is not even valuable and hike the price up really high….simply because it’s old, without doing research to see what its value really is.

The value of an art or antique…is usually what someone is willing to pay.

Actually, create an account on ebay, take a pic and post it in the appropriate forum. They probably won’t tell you what it’s worth, but someone will know whether it’s valuable, or junk. Take pictures of the front and back, and a close up of the artists signature…..

You can find several images of his posters by doing an image search for Jon Kennedy but you have to sift through a ton of irrelevant images.

I can’t remember the name of it right now, but there’s a site where you can upload an image, and it finds any and all matches of it on the internet – and tells you who it’s by. If this painting was done by someone who was known, this is why an image of the painting itself would help immensely.

Is this site what you are referring to? http://www.tineye.com/

That would be the one. :)