Melville Price

Price was born in 1920 in New York City.^[1]

Price experimented with Surrealism and Cubism before embracing Abstract Expressionism.^[2] He first taught art in Pennsylvania,^[2][3] including summer classes at Penn State Abington.^[4] He later became a professor of art at the University of Alabama.^[5]

Price died in 1970 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.^[1] For art critic Sarah Lansdell, "Price was not a compromiser and his works are deliberately harsh."^[2]

• Price, Barbara G. (2002). Without Compromise: The Art of Melville Price. Chicago: Thomas McCormick Gallery. ISBN 9780967101316. OCLC 51734075.