Mary Elizabeth Price

The following biography is submitted by Elizabeth Bammel, collector, and is a summary using data excerpted and compiled from The Philadelphia Ten A Women's Artist Group 1917-1945:

Mary Elizabeth Price was born in 1877 in West Virginia, and at an early age she moved with her Quaker family back to the familial farm in  Solebury (Bucks County) Pennsylvania. There she received her education at the Philadelphia School of Industrial Arts and later at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

During her long and active career, Price achieved notable exhibition history including exhibitions at the Corcoran Biennial, National Academy of Design, and in 1927 she won the Carnegie Prize for the best oil painting by an Americ   ...  Displaying 750 of 4543 characters.