Editing Vincent Price (section)

==Art==
Price, who studied art history at Yale, was an art lover and collector. He was a commissioner of the [[Indian Arts and Crafts Board]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Price|first1=Vincent|title=I Like What I Know : A Visual Autobiography|date=1959|publisher=Doubleday & Company|location=Garden City, NY|page=241}}</ref>

In 1957, impressed by the spirit of the students and the community's need for the opportunity to experience original artworks firsthand, 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]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://vincentpriceartmuseum.org/about/history/|title=History of the Vincent Price Art Museum|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101012155710/http://vincentpriceartmuseum.org/about/history/|archive-date=October 12, 2010}}</ref> which was the first "teaching art collection" owned by a [[Community colleges in the United States|community college]] in the United States. They ultimately donated some 2,000 pieces; the collection contains over 9,000 pieces and has been valued in excess of $5&nbsp;million.<ref>[http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&uri=full=3100001~!215460~!0#focus Aug. 1992 interview by the Smithsonian], Siris-archives.si.edu (October 25, 1993). Retrieved November 3, 2011.</ref>

Price also spent time working as an art consultant for [[Sears, Roebuck and Co.]]<ref name="biography.com"/> 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 that Price selected or commissioned for the collection included some by [[Rembrandt]], [[Pablo Picasso]], and [[Salvador Dalí]].<ref>[http://www.searsarchives.com/history/art/ "Sears and Fine Art: Vincent Price Collection of Fine Art"], Searsarchives.com. Retrieved November 3, 2011.</ref><ref>Kells, Laura J.; Colton, Paul; and Jackson, Allyson, [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2001/ms001033.pdf "Vincent Price. A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress"]. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. (1994). Latest revision: 2006 April</ref> Public access to fine art was important to Price, who, according to his daughter Victoria, saw the Sears deal as an "opportunity to put his populist beliefs into practice, to bring art to the American public." In the 1960s, portraits of Native Americans painted by [[Charles Bird King]] were secured for [[Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis#White House restoration|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.<ref>{{cite book|last=Price|first=Victoria|title=Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography|year=1999|publisher=St. Martins Press|isbn=978-0312242732|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780312242732/page/223 223]|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780312242732/page/223}}</ref>

Price amassed his own extensive collection of art, and in 2008, a painting bought for $25 by a couple from [[Dallas]] was identified as a piece from Price's collection. Painted by leading Australian modernist [[Grace Cossington Smith]], it was given a modern valuation of AU$45,000.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140909142411/http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/painting-bought-for-just-us25/story-e6frg6n6-1111117197672 "$45,000 painting bought for just $US25"], ''[[The Australian]]'', August 15, 2008.</ref>