Mary Elizabeth Price (1877 - 1965) American
Oil on Cardboard
Measure 15 3/4"in H x 19 3/4"in W and 19"in H x 23"in W with frame

Known for: Large scale floral still life with silver and gold leaf and landscape painting
Name variants: Elizabeth Price, M Elizabeth Price
Biography: The daughter of a Quaker family with roots in the Shenandoah Valley, M. Elizabeth Price moved with her family at an early age from West Virginia to a familial farm in Solebury, Pennsylvania. After attending school in Philadelphia at Friends Central School and the Philadelphia School of the Industrial Arts, she studied still life painting and drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1904 - 1907, where her works were later accepted for exhibitions spanning over twenty years. The Price family had strong ties to the art in both Bucks County and New York City. Her brother, Frederic Newlin Price, ran the Ferargil Galleries in Manhattan. Her brother, R. Moore Price, was an accomplished frame maker and supplied many artists in the New Hope school with quality hand-made frames. Her younger sister, Alice, married the talented New Hope Impressionist, Rae Sloan Bredin. In 1921, Price was accepted to the National Academy of Design and exhibited there 16 times between 1921 and 1934. M.E. Price was a longtime member of The Philadelphia Ten from 1921 - 1945 and worked with other Bucks County artists toward the founding of the Phillips Mill Community Association in 1929, where she remained an active participant most of her life and exhibited her works alongside Impressionist painters like Daniel Garber, John Folinsbee and Rae Sloan Bredin. Mary Elizabeth Price died on February 19, 1965, twenty years after the Philadelphia Ten disbanded.

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