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Bruce Wilson
Regarding Vincent Price and IB, I knew he had a house there because it was next door to John Dixon's parents place, but it is also mentioned in the Star News of July 25, 1965.
Price was an avid art collector and there is mention of the Turnisning Show a number of times throughout 1965.
Does anybody know if what is now Ocean Ln. was ever First St. in IB?
Price also gets a mention in an IB based version of Trivial Pursuits here.
http://www.ibhistory.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-955.html
Why anyone would spend time on such trviia is beyond me.
Sears Roebuck in 1962 hired Vincent Price to amass a group of art works to sell through their stores and catalogs. With a budget of three million dollars Price rounded up contemporary and earlier art works to sell. Fifty thousand oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints were sold through Sears until the program ended in 1971. The Man Ray drawing just below was one of the “Vincent Price Collection of Fine Art” works sold at Sears.
“As a collector of art, all the arts, during a long lifetime, I can only say that I have never stopped asking myself why I collect. The answers are many. First of all, I would think the greatest reason is that I feel by having a work of art around me continually I learn from it, not only about the artist but about myself. Collecting has helped me form my taste and I admit happily that my taste changes continually. Of all the areas of collecting in which I have been involved only two have remained constant, primitive art and drawings. In both of these areas I never seem to become bored with the individual work. Primitive art is a direct communication from the artist to the viewer and drawings have the same directness since they are the immediate response of the artist to the subject.”
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