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Margaret Evans Price
Children's Book Illustrator - Mother Goose, Children and Flowers

1920 circa

$15,000
£11,468.30
€13,209.16
CA$21,019.60
A$23,466.41
CHF 12,296.04
MX$287,251.84
NOK 156,159.88
SEK 147,238.94
DKK 98,581.34
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Mother Goose is a French fairy tale and later of English nursery rhyme. In this illustration, we see an oversized Goose in a yellow bonnet elevated on a step and engaging with an attentively curious young girl and young boy. Large vases of flowers frame them. Titled in pencil center bottom: "Goosey, Goosey Gander. Where do you wander? Signed Margaret Evans Price lower right. Framed and matted under glass. Some light toning with a small spot of foxing otherwise presents well for a work over a 100 years old. Margaret Evans Price (March 20, 1888 – November 20, 1973) was a U.S. toy manufacturer. With her husband, Irving Price, and Herman Fisher, she co-founded Fisher-Price Toys in 1930. Margaret Evans was a children's book illustrator and artist. She became the first Art Director of Fisher-Price and designed push-pull toys for the opening line, based on characters from her children's books. Family Margaret was a member of the wealthy Evans family of New York, who for a time had an effective monopoly on the building material industry in the City. Margaret's Brother Heathcliff expanded his Father's business operations to include a bookbinding business which at its peak encompassed a complex of buildings on East 12th Street in Manhattan. Margaret's Cousin was Republican Politician and Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court Charles Evans Hughes. After getting married, she lived with her family in East Aurora, New York. In 2014, her former residence is being considered for demolition or historical preservation Career Margaret Evans began her art career at an early age, and sold her first illustrated story to the Boston Journal in 1900. She attended high school in Charlestown, Boston, and went on to study at the Massachusetts Normal Art School. From there, she went on to study at the Boston Academy of Fine Arts under the tutelage of Joseph DeCamp and Vesper George.Before she married Irving Price, Evans worked as a freelance artist in New York City, publishing with Rand McNally, Harper & Brothers and Stecher Lithography [Rochester, NYAfter the formation of Fisher-Price, Margaret went on to exhibit her work in many galleries nationally. She was also published in Nature Magazine, the Women's Home Companion, and Pictorial Review.
  • Creator:
    Margaret Evans Price (1888 - 1973)
  • Creation Year:
    1920 circa
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 17 in (43.18 cm)Width: 14.5 in (36.83 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    Some light toning with a small spot of foxing otherwise presents well for a work over a 100 years old.
  • Gallery Location:
    Miami, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU385312038292

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