Margaret Evans Price

She became the first Art Director of Fisher-Price and designed push-pull toys for the opening line, based on characters from her children's books.

Margaret was a member of the wealthy Evans family of New York who, for a time, had an effective monopoly on the building material industry in the City.

Margaret's cousin was Republican politician and Chief Justice of the United States, Charles Evans Hughes.

[1] Margaret Evans began her art career at an early age, and sold her first illustrated story to the Boston Journal in 1900.

[2] Before she married Irving Price, Evans worked as a freelance artist in New York City, publishing with Rand McNally, Harper & Brothers and Stecher Lithography [Rochester, NY][3] After the formation of Fisher-Price, Margaret went on to exhibit her work in many galleries nationally.