Vincent Price Art Museum, Art museum in Monterey Park, United States.
Vincent Price Art Museum is an art museum on the campus of East Los Angeles College, housing over 9,000 objects from different cultures and periods. The collection includes impressionist paintings, Japanese prints, and archaeological artifacts from pre-Columbian Americas.
The museum was founded in 1957 and built on a generous donation of over 2,000 artworks from actor Vincent Price. This initial collection established it as an educational institution rooted in one collector's vision.
Since its founding, the museum has given solo exhibitions to Los Angeles artists such as Laura Aguilar, Carlos Almaraz, Nao Bustamante, Rafa Esparza, Judithe Hernández, Manuel López, Star Montana, Guadalupe Rosales and Shizu Saldamando. In 2014 it hosted Who Cares Wins!, a solo show by L.A. artist Michael C. Hsiung with more than a hundred ink drawings, paintings and mixed-media works.
The museum occupies a building on the East Los Angeles College campus in Monterey Park, northeast of downtown Los Angeles. The entrance sits behind a low tan concrete wall with a black metal railing, below the lettering "VINCENT PRICE ART M" on the pale grey facade. Campus parking and pedestrian paths lead to the doors; check the college's current opening days before setting out.
The museum's first director, Thomas Silliman, served from its founding in 1957 until 2006, nearly five decades. Of the more than 9,000 objects now held, about 2,000 came from Vincent Price's own donation, alongside impressionist paintings, Japanese prints and objects from the Ancient Americas.
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