EXTRACTS: Pirates! Illustrators Special Edition © 2020 The Book Palace (128 PAGES in Full edition)

112 He tended cattle for a while and with the money he earned paid a passage to London along with three fellow artists. They lived in a private home, Carlton Cottage, and began studies at Goldsmith Institute, the Westminster School of Art, and then with famed British illustrator, George Cruikshank. However, it was only for a brief period, since they soon opened Carlton Studios, and immersed themselves in the business of art. Nonetheless, the pressures of clients and collections, soon dismayed Price who left for Paris in 1909, where he studiedwith Jean-Paul Laurens, Benjamin Constant and Richard E. Miller at the Académie Julian. He freelanced in Paris until an assignment for Century in Belgium brought him to the attention of other American publishers. With his English wife, Nita E. J. Anson and son Donald, Price came to New York in 1911where he opened a branch of Carlton Studios. The following year he left the studio and began to produce illustrations for a large variety of magazines such as Liberty , Harper’s , The Century, American , True , Cosmopolitan , Argosy , Collier’s , MacLeans , and Woman’s Home Companion . His success was almost immediate, as his well-researched images with authentic costumes and accuracy in all aspects of his portrayals were greatly appreciated by readers and editors alike. This also added to the knowledge the artist had of the subject he was depicting and simultaneously to the magazine’s credibility. More than a dilettante, Price was a stickler for detail, whichmade himvery popular with both readers and publishers. Price also worked for many advertising accounts and, despite his proliferation in both advertising and editorial work, he will be most remembered for his stirring book art. His first illustrated book was Charles and Mary Lamb’s ‘Tales from Shakespeare’ published in 1905. However, among his best known was the Robert W. Chambers pirate novel ‘The Rogue’s Moon’, serialized in Liberty in 1928, ‘Leif Erikson the Lucky’ in 1939, and ‘Treasure Island’, among others. Of Price’s illustrations of his novel, Chambers wrote: FACING PAGE: The Great God Pan , watercolour and gouache on board, date unknown. ABOVE: Men Hate Cats – Why? , gouache on board, 1926. Interior illustration for the story by Albert Payson Terhune published in Liberty magazine. BOTTOM: Warpaint , watercolour and gouache on board, 1931. Illustration for American Magazine on the series ‘Warpaint, Part IV’.