Melville Price papers
name: label: Creator
content: Price, Melville, 1920-1970
label: Names
content: Christ-Janer, Albert, 1910-1973
label: Names
content: Kline, Franz, 1910-1962
label: Names
content: Price, Barbara, 1938-
label: Names
content: Stella, Joseph, 1877-1946
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Painting, Abstract -- New York (State) -- New York
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The donor, Barbara Price, is the widow of Melville Price.
creator: label: Creator
content: Price, Melville, 1920-1970
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter; New York, Alabama, New Jersey; b. 1920; d. 1970; Worked on WPA projects as a young painter and met Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, and became a protege of Joseph Stella.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 250 Items ((on 2 partial microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1944-1978
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.pricmelv
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sketchbooks
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 3893-3894 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sketchbooks
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Biographical material, consisting of a resume, a biographical account, and a hospital discharge summary; correspondence, including letters from Albert Christ-Janer, and Franz Kline; notes and writings, including an inventory price list; four loose drawings and 7 sketchbooks; exhibition announcements and catalogs; clippings; and autographed booklet of Joseph Stella's writings; and photographs of Price, his works of art, and miscellaneous phtographs.