Alice M. Rudy Price

Alice M. Rudy Price received a Ph.D. from Temple University, Tyler School of Art specializing in European art and culture at the turn of the century. Price and Emily C. Burns are the editors of Mapping Impressionist Painting in a Transnational Context forthcoming from Routledge in May 2021. Her dissertation on the Danish artist, Anna Ancher (1859-1935), addressed the artist in relation to the intersecting cultural contexts of rural Denmark, the Skagen Art Colony, Copenhagen and Paris. "Loss, the Female Nude and Anna Ancher’s Grief: A Woman's Own Modernism" in Scandinavian Studies 2016) considered Ancher's Grief (1902) in light of the issues it raises about the maternal body, nakedness and grief. This is part of a larger project considering modern discourse up through the 21st century representing female bodies that have experienced miscarriage, menopause and aging.

Price's review of Ordrupgaard's summer 2017 show, Pissarro at St. Thomas appeared in the 19th-Century-Art-Worldwide in the spring of 2018. She reviewed spring 2013 show on Anna Ancher at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) appeared in the autumn issue of 19th-Century-Art-Worldwide and her “Gendered Interiors” is published on NMWA’s website.

Price is also completing an article about comparative visualization of Hans Christian Andersen and how cultural context impacted reception through distortions related to culture, gender and anachronism.

She has also installed a permanent installation of selections from West Kensington Ministry's annual "Stations of the Cross," an art happening for professional, amateur and student artists in Philadelphia.

Dr. Price teaches modern and contemporary art and architecture at Temple University, Tyler School of Art and Architecture and at Jefferson University, College of Architecture and Built Environment. She is a College Board AP Art History Reader and has also served as a supervisor for Secondary Education teaching certification. Prior to pursuing her doctorate, Price earned a master’s degree in education from La Salle University, a master’s degree in history from American University, and taught history in private and public secondary schools for twenty years. She and her husband live in a northern suburb of Philadelphia.