Blue Oval II

Sister of the important art dealer Frederick Newlin Price of Ferargil Gallery in New York, Mary Elizabeth Price is best known for her Impressionist style and her floral still lifes with backgrounds of gold and silver leaf which were Japanese inspired. A member of the women's art group Ten Philadelphia Painters, Price became the director of the Neighborhood Art School of Greenwich House, New York and collaborated with Edith Lucille Howard in 1931 on the murals for the American Women's Association Clubhouse, New York.