Early Life and Artistic Awakening Clayton Sumner Price, born in 1874 near Bedford, Iowa, emerged from a world steeped in the rhythms of rural life—a family of twelve children raised on farms and ranches that stretched across Iowa, Wyoming, and even into Alberta, Canada. This formative period wasn’t one of immediate artistic pursuit; rather, it was an immersion in the raw physicality of existence, a deep connection to the land and its inhabitants that would later become the very soul of his art. He spent his youth as a carpenter and cowhand, skills honed through necessity but which also insti…