Garrett Price

American (1896-1979)

Garrett Price was born in Bucyrus, Kansas in 1896. He graduated from the University of Wyoming and moved to Chicago to pursue his artistic studies at the Art Institute of Chicago. Price then relocated to New England, where he lived for a time in Westport, Connecticut. He was a member of the Society of Illustrators and exhibited at several prestigious institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the American Watercolor Society. Price produced a wide range of works including watercolors and drawings of genre scenes, dancers, harbors, boats, and nightclubs. However he is best known as an illustrator for the ìNew Yorker,î for which he produced fifty covers and many cartoons.