Series consists of correspondence to and from Art Price relating to his professional career and to his personal life.
Included is correspondence from friends serving in the Canadian forces during the Second World War, including letters from Italy 1944-1945; correspondence with the National Film Board 1942-1946, 1953, 1956; with the Hudson's Bay Company, Canadian National Exhibition, Jasper Park Lodge, Canadian Government Exhibition Commission, McGlasham Silverware Ltd., Artlenders, Canadian Handicrafts Guild, and other clients and associates during the 1950s.
Also included is correspondence dating from the 1950s and 1960s with the Royal Ontario Museum, National Museum of Man, University of British Columbia, National Gallery of Canada, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Canadian Pacific Railways, Canadian Association for Adult Education, Canada Foundation, Musée des Beaux-Arts, and Sampson-Matthews Ltd. (Toronto). The later correspondence includes extensive correspondence with the National Capital Commission and the Department of Public Works, as well as letters relating to Price's travels in China and Japan.
Included as well is extensive correspondence relating to foundries and metal casting in Canada, including correspondence with Beach Foundry (Ottawa), Foundry Services Canada Ltd. (Guelph), Canadian Foundry Supplies and Equipment Ltd. (Montreal), Designed Precision Castings Ltd. (Brampton), Industrial Fine Castings Ltd. (Toronto), and others.
Other correspondents found in the correspondence are: Julian Roffman, Ross McLean, Mungo Martin, William Toye, Janet Baldwin, Robert Ayre, Ralph Foster, Tanya Moiseiwitsch, Kay Ambrose, Victor Tolgesy, Andrée Paradis, Boris Laskin, Eric Arthur, Arthur Lismer, Grant Munro, Charles Comfort, Lawrence Hyde, Ross McLean, Lotta Hitschmanova, Edmund Carpenter, and other Canadian artists, filmmakers, designers, writers and collectors.
There is extensive correspondence with Marius Barbeau throughout the files, including handwritten letters from him and copies of his correspondence relating to the study and preservation of Pacific Coast Indian artifacts and culture and to the publication of his books. Additional material includes letters from Barbeau and his wife Marie to their daughter Delila and a small amount of correspondence addressed to the Barbeaus, 1930-1965, including a note from the artist Kay Pepper.
Other material includes letters between Art and Delila Price, postcards from them to their children, and other family correspondence. The letters from Art Price to Delila Price document his work for the Canadian National Exhibition, the Volkoff Ballet, National Film Board, Marius Barbeau, Cape Dorset Co-op, and other projects, as well as their personal and family life.