Watercolors and Drawings from the Collection of Vincent Price, August 2-27, 1950

Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. (May 27, 1911-October 25, 1993) was an American actor, art historian, art collector, and gourmet cook. He appeared on stage, television, and radio, and in more than 100 films. Price has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures and one for television.

Price, who studied art history at Yale, was an art lover and collector. He was a commissioner of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board. In 1957, Vincent and Mary Grant Price donated 90 pieces from their private collection and a large amount of money to establish the Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College in Monterey Park, California, which was the first teaching art collection owned by a community college in the United States. They ultimately donated some 2,000 pieces. Price also spent time working as an art consultant for Sears-Roebuck. From 1962 to 1971, Sears offered the ""Vincent Price Collection of Fine Art"", selling about 50,000 fine-art prints to the general public. Works which Price selected or commissioned for the collection included some by Rembrandt, Pablo Picasso, and Salvador Dalí. Public access to fine art was important to Price. In the 1960s, portraits painted by Charles Bird King of Native Americans were secured for Jacqueline Kennedy's White House restoration. Through the efforts of Vincent Price, these five paintings were paid for and donated to the White House Collection by Sears-Roebuck.

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