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 Edith Ballinger Price, an illustrator, painter, and writer, who died in Virginia on September 29, 1997, was born April 26, 1897. The daughter of William F. and Eleanor R. Richards Price and the granddaughter of the well-known 19th-century American artist William Trost Richards, she lived most of her life in Newport, a place she always considered home. She wrote to Linda Gordon, associate editor of Redwood's newsletter &c., in 1989, "I feel as though I have been away from Home a long time…. Among all the Newport changes, I’m glad the Redwood stands firm." She was a Redwood shareholder from 1956 until her departure from Newport in 1962. Miss Price described her pen-and-ink drawing (at left) of 1929 as "one of a series of historic Newport post cards that I did back in the ‘20s and ‘30s. I called them ‘Histori-cards’ – they were quite popular, and sold well. Never thinking that they might become as popular as they did, I carelessly neglected to copyright them – and in the quarter century that has passed since I left Newport, some of them were pirated in various ways, without my knowledge or sanction (my fault)." Several of these drawings were shown in the "Tercentenary Exhibition: The History of Newport in Pictures" at the Art Association of Newport in 1939. Fascinated with Newport’s history, Miss Price lectured about and worked for the preservation of the city’s colonial architecture, while celebrating it in her art work. Collection of Redwood Library. |
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