Background
Mrs. Price was born on October 21, 1927, in Augusta, Georgia, United States. She is a daughter of William Lloyd and Orlana Jerome (Gould) Price.
(From the first pip of a cygnet to the "swan-song" of old ...)
From the first pip of a cygnet to the "swan-song" of old age, "Swans of the World" covers the development and behavior of the world's majestic swans.
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1994
Mrs. Price was born on October 21, 1927, in Augusta, Georgia, United States. She is a daughter of William Lloyd and Orlana Jerome (Gould) Price.
Alice Price attended Kansas City Art Institute in 1945-1946 and 1950-1951. She graduated with Bachelor in Art in English Literature from Oklahoma State University in 1949. In 1970 she received Master of Arts in English from University Tulsa.
From 1949 to 1951 Mrs. Price joined the staff of Philbrook Art Museum, Tulsa, working as a museum assistant. Between 1951 and 1954 she was a recreation supervisor United States Army Europe. During 1955-1959 Mrs. Price worked at The Neighborhood Center, Inc. as a director of City of Monterey (California) Parks and Recreation Department.
Alice Price served as an art gallery director and concurrently was a co-owner of Gallerie Quais de la Roquette, Arles, France, in 1960-1962. From 1963 till 1969 she acted as a program director of City of Tulsa (Oklahoma) Parks and Recreation Department. She was an instructor of English literature and creative writing at Holland Hall School, Tulsa, in 1970-1986.
In 1986-1991 Mrs. Price was an artist in residence at Oklahoma State Arts Council, Oklahoma City. She worked as a scholar in residence at Tulsa City-County Library of National Endowment of the Humanities, Tulsa/Washington, 1988, 1990, 1991. Since 1974 Alice Price worked at Public HCE Publs/ Riverrun Press, Tulsa.
Alice Price resumed her office as an acquisitions editor of Council Oak Books, Tulsa, 1986-1989. She was a lecturer at Gilcrease Institute, Tulsa, 1984, 1986, 1990, 1994, Trumpeter Swan Society, Minneapolis, 1997, Kansas State University, Manhattan, 1997.
(From the first pip of a cygnet to the "swan-song" of old ...)
1994
Quotations:
"A duck suddenly took flight and soared right past my twelve- year-old eyes. To witness it was an event that transformed me and moved me out of time. The duck, a uiallard, was and still is so commonplace a sight that, to those who look at waterfowl, sighting it would be an ordinary event in ordinary time. It was that snap of pinion feathers, however, that blurred flash of green and brown flying before my eyes which kindled the desire to record what I saw and fired me to write."
"At first I wrote mainly poetry. Some years later another event, the witnessing of wild swans in the wilderness, enabled me to find a particular metaphor for which I had long searched. I began to think of a work that would not only embrace a kind of natural history in prose, but would also include, from my side of the border between science and art, that timeless zone of poetry and myth where understanding between humans and animals has long met. The result was my first book in prose, Swans of the World in Nature, History, Myth, and Art."
"From the act of writing and from other writers I have learned the mysterious connections of words on a page. It is, however, to the instructive voices of prairie and woodland, where wild swans nest and marsh reeds grow in watery silence, that I have tried to listen and to hear the lessons of the wild."