B.5. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THOMAS DREES PRICE

B.5. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THOMAS DREES PRICE

B.5.Biographical Sketch of Thomas Drees Price
Figure 1. Rome Prize Award for Price’s solution to the design problem, “An Estate on a
Private Island.”
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Figure 2. Thomas Drees Price in his studio during
the winter of 1931 at the American Academy in
Rome preparing his model of Horace’s Villa (Price
Archive, Album of the Horace’s Villa Excavation).
Figure 3. Portrait of Thomas Price at Horace’s
Villa, by David Mattison. Painting is in the
collection of J. Gorsuch.
Figure 5. East range of the quadriporticus during
Price’s excavation (Price Archive, Album of the
Horace’s Villa Excavation).
Figure 4. Thomas Price with other fellows of
the American Academy in Rome at Horace’s
Villa (Price Archive, Album of the Horace’s Villa
Excavation).
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B.5. Biographical Sketch of Thomas Drees Price
Figure 6. The small niched feature in the center of
the east range of the quadriporticus during Price’s
excavation (Price Archive, Album of the Horace’s
Villa Excavation).
Figure 7. Trellis at Conservatory Garden, Central
Park, New York City (photo by K. Gleason).
Figure 8. Wellhead base for fountain in
Conservatory Garden (photo by K. Gleason).
Figure 9. Brazil Pavilion at 1939 New York World’s
Fair (American Academy in Rome Brochure, Price
Archives).
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Figure 10. Price’s plan of “Horace’s Villa,” after his excavations of
1930-31 (photo courtesy of Henrique Price Grechi).
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B.5. Biographical Sketch of Thomas Drees Price
Figure 11 (left). Price’s reconstructive plan of
“Horace’s Villa” (photo courtesy of Henrique Price
Grechi).
Figure 12. Price’s reconstructive longitudinal section of “Horace’s Villa” (photo courtesy of Henrique
Price Grechi).
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