Red Tulips, c. 1894
Watercolor, 9-1/2 x 7 inches
Collection, The Kentucky Museum, Bowling Green

Sarah Frances "Sadie" Price was born in 1849 in Evansville, Indiana daughter of Alexander and Maria (Morehouse) Price. The family moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky while Sadie was an infant. Price spent much of her life as a semi-invalid. From her bed, she taught drawing and painting classes. After being treated and "cured" by a Philadelphia physician in the mid-1880s, Price pursued her interest in nature and began to gather, catalogue, and illustrate the region's plants and birds. Though Price remained "fragile," she taught nature classes, led excursions into the countryside, and wrote books and articles on the subject. Prepared over four years, an exhibit of watercolor sketches of Warren County's native plants and birds took first place in its class at Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. The principal collection of Price's work, numbering over 965 pieces, resides at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. Sadie Price died in 1903 at age 54.

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