| Hattie Longstreet Price | |
| Birth Date: | July 17, 1891 |
| Birth Place: | Germantown, Philadelphia |
| Death Place: | Chicago, Illinois |
| Nationality: | American |
| Education: | Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Académie Colarossi |
| Field: | Illustration |
Hattie Longstreet Price (July 17, 1891 – July 11, 1968) was an American artist and illustrator.[1] She is known for her illustrations of children's books.[2]
Hattie Longstreet was born on July 17, 1891[1] in Germantown, Pennsylvania.[3] She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Académie Colarossi in Paris.[1]
She illustrated The Yellow Quill Girl by Lotta Rowe Anthony in 1921 and several Ruth Campbell novels in 1923.[4] She illustrated Ruth Brown McArthur's The Gingerbread House.[5]
Other works by Longstreet include illustrations for Christine Whiting Parmenter's The Real Reward (1927). She also illustrated Eight Cousins and Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott.[6] Her illustrations for Alcott's Little Women have been described as "stress[ing] the gentility of the March family. ... subordinating representation to decorative effect, endowing all her female characters with delicate profiles, stylized hands, and dainty slippered feet".[7]
She also illustrated The Story of Silk (1925) by Sara Ware Bassett[8] and The Fairyland of Opera by Louise M. Pleasanton.
She illustrated several books by Alice Turner Curtis, including A Frontier Girl of Pennsylvania, A Yankee Girl at Lookout Mountain,[9] A Little Maid of New Hampshire (1928), A Little Maid of South Carolina (1929), and A Little Maid of New Orleans (1930).
She died in Chicago on July 11, 1968.[10]