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MARY ELIZABETH PRICE (American, 1877-1965) Golden Haystacks in Sunlight, circa 1900 Oil on canvas 13 x 18 inches (33.0 x 45.7 cm) Signed lower right: Price FROM THE JEAN AND GRAHAM DEVOE WILLIFORD CHARITABLE TRUST Mary Elizabeth Price was the sister of the prominent New York art dealer, Frederick Newlin Price, who ran Feragil Galleries. She specialized in decorative, modernist landscapes in the Pennsylvania impressionist style, and is particularly well-known for her modernist floral pieces with metal-leaf backgrounds which were inspired by Japanese art. Born in West Virginia, she moved at an early age she moved with her Quaker family to 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 American artist in the exhibition. She first exhibited with the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1914 and every year between 1926 and 1943. She joined the Philadelphia Ten in 1921 and exhibited with them as well for many years.