Margaret Evans Price
, 1888 - 1973
Margaret Evans Price was an American children's book illustrator and one of the co-founders of Fisher-Price toys. She was born into the wealthy Evans family and was the cousin of Charles Evans Hughes Sr., a lawyer and Republican politician.
Evans Price was interested in art from a young age. At twelve, she sold her first illustrated story to the Boston Journal. She studied art at Massachusetts Normal Art School and at the Boston Academy of Fine Arts, then moved to New York and worked as a freelance illustrator for companies such as Rand McNally. In 1930, she founded Fisher-Price toys along with her husband Irving L. Price, and Herman G. Fisher. Evans Price was also Fisher Price's first Art Director, and designed pull-toys inspired by characters from her own books.
She is particularly known for her children's books of fairy tales. Her art was displayed in galleries, and she wrote for "Nature Magazine", "The Women's Home Companion", and "Pictorial Review".
Sources:
porkopolis.org (accessed: December 3, 2020),
brwnpaperbag.com (accessed: December 3, 2020),
meibohmfinearts.com (accessed: December 3, 2020).
Bio prepared by Robin Diver, University of Birmingham, RSD253@student.bham.ac.uk
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