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Hattie Longstreet Price

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Hattie Longstreet Price
Born(1891-07-17)July 17, 1891
Germantown, Philadelphia
DiedJuly 11, 1968(1968-07-11) (aged 76)
Chicago, Illinois
NationalityAmerican
Known forIllustration

Hattie Longstreet Price (July 17, 1891 – July 11, 1968) was an American artist and illustrator.[1] She is known for her illustrations of children's books.[2]

Biography

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Cover of Binkie and the Bell Dolls by Hattie Longstreet Price (her initials can be seen below the girl's slippers)

Hattie Longstreet was born on July 17, 1891[1] in Germantown, Pennsylvania.[3] She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Académie Colarossi in Paris.[1]

She illustrated The Yellow Quill Girl by Lotta Rowe Anthony in 1921 and several Ruth Campbell novels in 1923.[4] She illustrated Ruth Brown McArthur's The Gingerbread House.[5]

Other works by Longstreet include illustrations for Christine Whiting Parmenter's The Real Reward (1927). She also illustrated Eight Cousins and Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott.[6] Her illustrations for Alcott's Little Women have been described as "stress[ing] the gentility of the March family. ... subordinating representation to decorative effect, endowing all her female characters with delicate profiles, stylized hands, and dainty slippered feet".[7]

She also illustrated The Story of Silk (1925) by Sara Ware Bassett[8] and The Fairyland of Opera by Louise M. Pleasanton.

She illustrated several books by Alice Turner Curtis, including A Frontier Girl of Pennsylvania, A Yankee Girl at Lookout Mountain,[9] A Little Maid of New Hampshire (1928), A Little Maid of South Carolina (1929), and A Little Maid of New Orleans (1930).

She died in Chicago on July 11, 1968.[10]

Additional works

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Miller, Bertha E. Mahony; Latimer, Louise Payson; Folmsbee, Beulah (October 12, 1970). "Illustrators of children's books, 1744-1945". Horn Book. Retrieved March 17, 2020 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Falk, Peter H.; Lewis, Audrey M. (October 12, 1999). Who was who in American art 1564-1975: 400 years of artists in America. Sound View Press. ISBN 9780932087553. Retrieved March 17, 2020 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Caplan, H. H. (October 12, 1987). The Classified Directory of Artists' Signatures, Symbols & Monograms: American Artists with New U.K. Additions. P. Grahame Publishing Company. ISBN 9780950889313. Retrieved March 17, 2020 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series: 1923". Copyright Office, Library of Congress. October 12, 1924 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ "The Atlantic". Atlantic Monthly Company. October 12, 1922 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series: 1927. United States Copyright Office. 1928. p. 7720. Retrieved March 17, 2020 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ Janice M. Alberghene; Beverly Lyon Clark (April 8, 2014). LITTLE WOMEN and THE FEMINIST IMAGINATION: Criticism, Controversy, Personal Essays. Routledge. pp. 125–. ISBN 978-1-135-59318-6.
  8. ^ "Hattie Longstreet Price | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.
  9. ^ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (October 12, 1957). "Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1956". Copyright Office, Library of Congress – via Google Books.
  10. ^ "Mrs. W. C. Price, 77; Artist was from City". Philadelphia Daily News. July 16, 1968. p. 41. Retrieved March 17, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
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