Famous Number ' Locomobile
Why Famous Number ' Locomobile matters
This slug could not be matched to a documented visual artist. Research conducted on 2026-07-16 across art-historical references, museum and gallery records, and auction-market databases found no painter, sculptor, photographer, or other creative professional named "Famous Number ' Locomobile." The name most plausibly derives from the Locomobile Company of America, an early American automobile manufacturer, and specifically from its 1906 to 1908 racing car known as "Old Number 16," winner of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup. That is a piece of automotive history, not an artist's biography, and the two should not be conflated. This page is retained in draft form as a transparent placeholder rather than populated with invented facts.
Selected works
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Biography
No birth date, birth place, death date, nationality, gender, education, or training could be confirmed for an individual under this name. The internal data block supplied for this profile arrived without a birth year, death year, or living status, generated from the name string alone, and the research dossier was unable to fill in any of those fields with a real person. The only "Locomobile" material that surfaced in research concerns the automobile marque itself: the Locomobile Company of America (active roughly 1899 to 1929), its early steam cars, and the racing car "Old Number 16," which is preserved at The Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, Michigan. A separate, unrelated figure, the illustrator Peter Helck (1893 to 1988), appeared in search results because he painted early motor-racing scenes, but nothing ties him to this name either. No credible biography for an artist named "Famous Number ' Locomobile" exists to report.
Critical reception
No exhibition history, award, honor, or named critic's review in a major art outlet could be located for this name. Automotive enthusiast writing describes "Old Number 16" as a celebrated racing car, but that is commentary on a vehicle's competitive history, not art criticism, and it is not reproduced here as though it were.
Market
No auction record for an artwork sold under this name could be found. The only sale records associated with the word "Locomobile" are for the antique automobiles themselves, for example a 1925 Locomobile Model 48 that sold for USD 156,800 through Broad Arrow Auctions at The Amelia in 2024. Those are car sales, not art sales, and they fall outside the scope of an artist market profile. No artprice ranking, gallery price history, or repeat-sale data exists for this name in the sources reviewed.
What collectors should know
This entry should be treated as unverified. Nothing about this name's identity, output, market history, or critical standing has been confirmed by primary or secondary sources, and the internal worklist rank attached to this slug (No. 1982) reflects only an internal record-generation process, not confirmed artistic or market activity. Before this page leaves draft status, the underlying identity needs to be reconfirmed or the slug should be reassigned or removed.
Further reading and resources
Data current as of 2026-07-16.
