Thornton Willis, 2012: “During my undergraduate years I learned that Melville Price, a painter thoroughly connected to the Abstract Expressionists, was teaching painting at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
Thornton Willis, 2012: “During my undergraduate years I learned that Melville Price, a painter thoroughly connected to the Abstract Expressionists, was teaching painting at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. In the summer of 1964, I enrolled in graduate school at Tuscaloosa with the specific purpose of meeting Mr. Price. I not only met Mel Price but I took an advanced undergraduate painting course with him and, from that summer semester until I received my M.A. degree in l966, he was my primary teacher.”