Margaret Evans Price (1888 – 1973) was an American illustrator, writer, painter, muralist and toy designer. She is most known for writing, illustrating and collaborating on several children’s books throughout her career, as well as completing notable murals, still life paintings and portraits. Price was also the first art director for Fisher-Price toy company, which was co-founded by her husband Irving Price.
Price was born March 20, 1888 in Chicago, Illinois. She was a member of the wealthy Evans family of New York; at the time her family held a monopoly on the building material industry in New York City
Price spent her early childhood living in Nova Scotia and relocated to Boston at the age of 9.
She began studying art at the Massachusetts Normal Art School. She went
abroad to Europe for six months, where she traveled to Paris, Ireland,
Wales and Holland]
When Price returned to the United States, she studied at the Boston
Academy of Fine Arts, studying portraiture under Joseph DeCamp and
design under Vesper George.
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK
RUMPEL-STILT-SKIN
THE FROG PRINCE
LITTLE RED RIDING-HOOD
DRAKESTAIL
