Garrett Price

Garrett Price (1897-1979) was an American artist, cartoonist and illustrator. He is remembered for his cartoons and cover illustrations for New Yorker and for children's book illustrations.

Price was reared on a farm in Saratoga, Wyoming, the son of a horse-and-buggy doctor. He began sketching animals and people as a boy, and attended the University of Wyoming. The University library holds a collection of his work. He went on to study art at the Art Institute of Chicago where he became friends with fellow New Yorker cartoonists Perry Barlow, Alice Harvey and Helen E. Hokinson.

Price married Florence Semler (d. 1973) of Latrobe, Pennsylvania. They lived in Westport, Connecticut and had a summer home on Mason's Island at the mouth of the Mystic River, in Stonington, Connecticut where the Price's friend, artist Herbert Stoops, also summered.

Price's first job was as a reporter-cartoonist for The Kansas City Star, he went on to draw illustrations and a fll-page comic strip for the Chicago Tribune. He served in WWI as a contributing artist for Navy publications.

Price worked for over half a century for The New Yorker, drawing hundreds of cartoons and 100 covers, including two in the New Yorker's first year (“Paris Café” Aug. 1 and “Heat Wave,” Aug. 29, 1925.)

Thomas Powers describes Prices' covers in later decades as sometimes possessing "a stunning, wistful beauty," flagging, in particular, "a 1956 cover of circus queens riding elephants into the ring, a 1949 cover of a boy all alone on a spring ball field sliding into home plate, and a 1951 cover of autumn leaves falling over a summer house being closed for the winter—a husband sits waiting in the car as his wife gathers a last armful of flowers." Price’s last cover appeared in the summer of 1973, the year his wife died.

Drawing Room Only (1946), a collection of Price's work, principally featuring New Yorker cartoons.

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