[2] Her parents were Quakers Reuben Moore and Caroline Cooper Paxson Price who lived in Shenandoah, Virginia.

The program was funded by Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney to teach children painting, drawing, pottery, wood carving, and sculpting.

In the winter of 1919–1920, Price exhibited the children's work, as part of an art education campaign with other schools, at the suggestion of Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh.

[7] Inspired by the painters from Siena and Florence during the Italian Renaissance,[7] Price is best known for her floral still life paintings which used gold and silver leaf.

[9] "Her work combines a Sienese delicacy of line with a modern freedom in the use of color," wrote a New York Times critic.

1933), were included in The Painterly Voice: Bucks County's Fertile Ground, a 2011 exhibition of the James A. Michener Art Museum.

[2][3] Between 1921 and 1934, Price exhibited 16 times at the National Academy of Design, where in 1927 she won the Carnegie Prize for best oil painting by an American artist,[2][3] for her depiction of sixteenth-century Spanish galleons.

[3] Her sister married Rae Sloan Bredin, another American impressionist painter living in New Hope, Pennsylvania.

[4] Her brother, Reuben Moore Price, was a member of the Bucks County arts and crafts frame making movement.

[3] Price lived much of her early artistic life in New York City and then returned to Bucks County in New Hope, Pennsylvania[16] in late the 1920s.

She grew a garden of irises, mallows, peonies, lilies, delphiniums, poppies, hollyhocks, and gladioli that she used as subjects for her paintings.