Price, Vincent, 1911-1993
type Collector Patron Dealer/Gallery
dates 1911-1993
city Los Angeles
stateCA
other citiesSt. Louis, MO; New Haven, CT; London;
sex M
history Vincent Leonard Price, Jr., was an actor, author, art collector, lecturer and patron.

Price's collection included art from Africa, Peruvian and Mexican artifacts dating from 300 B.C., North American Indian Art, and works from the renaissance to contemporary times.

Price was an art-buying consultant of Sears, Roebuck & Company, a former president of the art council of the University of California at Los Angeles and the founder and prime donor of a major art collection at East Los Angeles College.

Price was married three times his third wife, the actress Coral Browne, whom he married in 1974, died in 1991. He was previously married to Edith Barrett, an actress, from 1938 to 1948, and to Mary Grant, a designer, from 1949 to 1973.

retrieved 7/18/2008
decades1930-1940
1940-1950
1950-1960
1960-1970
1970-1980
1980-1990
updated 10/31/2024 13:33:18
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Repository Description Links
Library of Congress
Manuscript Division
 Papers of Vincent Price, 1883-1992 (bulk 1932-1992). see details...
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Archives 		Lee H. B. Malone correspondence and miscellaneous subjects,
Bernard J Reis, 1949-1960. 		see details...
Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Harvard University 		I. Rice Pereira Papers, 1929-1976 (inclusive). see details...
Yale University Library
Manuscripts and Archives 		Vincent Price papers, 1890-1990 (inclusive). see details...
University of California, Los Angeles
YRL Department of Special Collections 		Howard Warshaw oral history transcript / interviewed by Susan Einstein, [1976] see details...
University of Wyoming
American Heritage Center, Dept. 3924 		Jean Colbert papers, 1949-1978. see details...
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Archives 		Lee H. B. Malone correspondence and miscellaneous subjects,
Bernard J Reis, 1949-1960. 		see details...
Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 		Edna Reindel papers, 1918-1990.
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Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 		Molly Saltman "Art and Artists" interviews, 1966-1967 see details...
Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 		Howard M. Gibbs papers, 1904-1975. see details...
Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 		Oral history interview with Fritz Scholder, 1995 Mar. 3-30. see details...
Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 		Oral history interview with Clinton Adams, 1995 Aug. 2-3. see details...
Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 		Oral history interview with Vincent Price, 1992 August 6-14. see details...
Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 		[Rosalie Berkowitz collection of photographs]
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University of California, Berkeley
The Bancroft Library 		Primitive painter of the West oral history transcript. Streeter Blair; interviewed by Elizabeth I. Dixon, [1965].
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Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Harvard University 		I. Rice Pereira Papers, 1929-1976 (inclusive). see details...
Columbia University Libraries
Butler Library, 6th Fl. East, 		Reminiscences of Vincent Price : oral history, 1981.
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Library of Congress
Manuscript Division
 Papers of Johnny Carson, 1970-1992. see details...
Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 		Mark Tobey papers, [ca. 1920]-1977. see details...
University of Washington Libraries
Special Collections Division, University of Washington Libraries 		Mark Tobey Papers, circa 1850-1985 see details...

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