Rare Vincent Price Original Handwritten Poem Purchased from Vincent Price Estate

Description: Rare Vincent Price Original Poem in His Own Beautiful Handwriting To His Daughter and Wife on Vincent Price Letterhead (Mentions his son Vincent Barrett Price in Poem. The bios of the “four” in the poem are given below.) Purchased from the Estate of Vincent Price 7.25 x 10.50 inches (Small dog ear upper right and sheet was originally folded) “I am thankful for The two of you and what is more I’m thankful I have Puffie too. Life is lovely when we three Are all together on a spree Or just a (sic) home with our T.V. For the present I can wish We always know it like a fish Knows water is its dish. By that I mean if we’re content And live the present future bent To so enjoy today’s accomplishment. We’ll all be happy evermore And by the way I’m thankful for Barrett and Rini who make it four.” Last stanza borrows heavily from Edgar Allan Poe, of whom Vincent Price filmed several movies and extensively narrated as well. Item comes with Victoria Price signed Letter of Authenticity and original estate auction summary to show provenance. Item shipped Priority and with insurance (free to buyer) Give your loved one or that special friend the best Halloween gift ever! Vincent Price From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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's first film role was as a leading man in the 1938 comedy Service de Luxe. He became a character actor, appearing in The Song of Bernadette (1943), Laura (1944), The Keys of the Kingdom (1944), Leave Her to Heaven (1945), Dragonwyck (1946), and The Ten Commandments (1956). He established himself in the horror genre with roles in House of Wax (1953), The Fly (1958), House on Haunted Hill (1959), Return of the Fly (1959), The Tingler (1959), The Last Man on Earth (1964), Witchfinder General (1968), The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), and Theatre of Blood (1973). He collaborated with Roger Corman on House of Usher (1960), The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), The Haunted Palace (1963), and The Masque of the Red Death (1964), most of which were Edgar Allan Poe adaptations. Price appeared in the television series Batman as Egghead. Price voiced the villainous Professor Ratigan in Disney's animated film The Great Mouse Detective (1986), and appeared in the drama The Whales of August (1987), which earned him an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male nomination. Price's final film was Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands (1990). For his contributions to cinema, he received lifetime achievement or special tribute awards from Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films; Fantasporto; Bram Stoker Awards; and Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Price narrated animated films, radio dramas, and documentaries, and provided the narration in Michael Jackson's song "Thriller". For his voice work in Great American Speeches (1959), Price was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album. Price was an art collector and arts consultant, with a degree in art history. He lectured and wrote books on art. The Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College is named in his honor. Price was a gourmet cook and cookbook author. V. B. Price From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Vincent Barrett Price (born August 30, 1940) is an American poet, human rights and environmental columnist, editor, reporter, publisher, and teacher. His most recent works include the poetry volumes Polishing the Mountain, or Catching Balance Just in Time: Selected Poems 2008–2020, Innocence Regained: Christmas Poems, and Memoirs of the World in Ten Fragments, and the nonfiction book The Orphaned Land: New Mexico's Environment Since the Manhattan Project. He is the co-founder, with Benito Aragon, of the New Mexico Mercury, an online platform featuring news, commentary and analysis from a variety of experts and writers around New Mexico. Since January 2017, the Mercury Messenger has featured Price's online column of politics and the environment. Price has taught off and on since 1976 in the University of New Mexico's School of Architecture and Planning, and as continuing faculty in the UNM Honors College from 1986 to 2014. His seminars range from the classics in translation to modern poetry, urban studies, and New Mexico's environmental history. He is currently an elected member of the Board of Directors for the Leopold Writing Program. In 2021, he received the New Mexico Literary Arts Gratitude Award "for contributions to the life of the poetry community in New Mexico and the Southwest. Price was born on August 30, 1940, in Los Angeles, California, the only son of actor Vincent Price (1911–1993) and his first wife, actress Edith Barrett (1907–1977). He moved to New Mexico in 1958, escaping Hollywood's celebrity culture, and came to identify with the state, its isolation and eccentricity, and its people, landscape, architecture, and traditional cultures. He graduated from the University of New Mexico in 1962 with a B.A. in anthropology. That same year he published his first poem and began a lifelong writing practice. He first visited Chaco Canyon in 1961 and published his seminal work of poetry, Chaco Body, with photographer Kirk Gittings in 1992. After graduate school he worked as a reporter, and in 1971 he began a weekly column in New Mexico that has run almost continuously to the present. In 1969 Price married the artist Rini Price. They lived in the same house and worked the same land in Albuquerque's North Valley until Rini's death in 2019; Price still lives there today. In 2007, Price's selected poems from 1966 to 2006, Broken and Reset, were published by UNM Press. In 2016, he received an honorary degree, Doctor of Letters (Litt. D), from his alma mater. He continues to write poetry, nonfiction, and his ongoing weekly column about politics and the environment. Victoria Price From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mary Victoria Price (born April 27, 1962) is an American public speaker and the author of the memoir, The Way of Being Lost: A Road Trip to My Truest Self and Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography. She currently spends much of her time traveling and speaking about the life of her father, Vincent Price, as well as discussing self-development topics. Price was born April 27, 1962, at St John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California, to actor Vincent Price and his second wife, Mary Grant Price. She has one older half-sibling, Vincent Barrett Price, born in 1940 to Vincent Price's first wife Edith Barrett. Victoria Price has a bachelor's degree in art history and theater from Williams College. She is currently PhD ABD in American Studies from the University of New Mexico. Price has taught at the University of New Mexico, the New Mexico Highlands University, and the Philos School, an alternative arts-and-humanities school in Santa Fe. She has worked as an interior designer, and has appeared on HGTV and in many design publications.[3] She is also an interfaith/interspiritual minister, having been ordained in 2016. She is an inspirational speaker, giving talks internationally on creativity, spirituality, wellness, art and design, as well as on the life of her father and other topics. She is on the board of the Vincent Price Art Museum in California. She also appeared in the movie Edward Scissorhands, her father's last film, where she played a newscaster. Price is the author of the inspirational memoir, The Way of Being Lost: A Road Trip to My Truest Self. In 1999, Price wrote Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography, and released an updated version with changed acknowledgements in 2014. She has also written the preface for a 50th anniversary edition of A Treasury of Great Recipes, a cookbook written by Vincent Price and his wife Mary. Price decided to come out as a lesbian in the 1980s. She is interested in Native American and African art, and horseback riding. She has her own blog, Daily Practice of Joy. Although Victoria is the daughter of a horror icon, she is not a fan of horror films, but she is a fan of horror film fans. She often attends and speaks at horror conventions. Mary Grant Price From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mary Grant Price (20 February 1917 – 2 March 2002) was a Welsh-American costume designer who worked in theatre and film. She worked professionally under the name Mary Grant. She began her career on Broadway in the mid-1930s, first as an assistant to Raoul Pene Du Bois, and later as a lead designer during the 1940s. In 1943 she began working in film and spent much of the 1940s and 1950s designing costumes for Hollywood motion pictures. She was a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Price was born Eleanor Mary Grant in Broad Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales.[1] She studied dance for one semester at the University of Washington before moving to New York City to study design. She began her career as an assistant designer to Raoul Pene Du Bois in 1935 at the age of 18. She also worked during the late 1930s and early 1940s as an assistant to Miles White. She worked with these two men on several notable Broadway shows, including the original productions of DuBarry Was a Lady (1939), Sons o' Fun (1941), and Oklahoma! (1943) among others. As head designer, she designed costumes for eight Broadway shows, including Mexican Hayride (1944) and Marinka (1945). Between 1943–1972, Grant designed costumes for 14 motion pictures, beginning with Follies Girl which was released in 1943. While working on the film Up in Central Park (1948) she met actor Vincent Price. She became Price's second wife in 1949, becoming the stepmother of Vincent Barrett Price (b. 1940) and giving birth to the couple's daughter, Victoria Price, in 1962. In 1950, the family were living at 1815 Benedict Canyon Drive in Beverly Hills.[2] Between the years 1965 and 1969, Grant co-authored a series of cookbooks with her husband.[3] Mary and Vincent divorced in 1973. Mary died, aged 85, in Boston, Massachusetts Rini Price From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rini Price (March 9, 1941 – October 19, 2019) was an American painter and visual artist from New Mexico. Her work is included in the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History’s permanent collection and the Capitol Art Collection at the Roundhouse in Santa Fe, in addition to many private collections. Although she is generally identified as an abstract or figurative artist, her body of work defies definition,[2] and she never considered herself a member of any school or movement. She completed thousands of drawings and hundreds of paintings during her career. She remained reclusive in that she voluntarily removed herself from academic art and the commercial gallery system, showing only occasionally in one-woman and group exhibitions. She died on October 19, 2019. Rini Price was born of Sicilian and German ancestry to S. Jack Rini and Marjorie Herman Rini in Gary, Indiana. The family, including her siblings Jim and Jacki, moved frequently during her childhood. Her father was a chemical engineer working with vegetable fats and oils, and the family relocated for jobs throughout Indiana and in Chicago, Boston, and ultimately Memphis, where he was Vice President of Research and Production for Kraft. Price was thirteen when she landed in Tennessee. She had never before witnessed discrimination and racism to the degree prevalent in the South during the time of Jim Crow laws, and they outraged her. She left Tennessee as soon as she was able, relocating to Albuquerque in 1958 to study art at the University of New Mexico. “I checked the encyclopedia and found that New Mexico had very few people per square mile,” she later said. “I also saw that it had mountains… so here I am. Price found relief among New Mexico's various cultures and relative acceptance between them. “New Mexico always made me feel freer than other places,” she said. “That makes a difference no matter what type of art you’re involved with.” Her best and most enduring friendships, including those with track stars John J. Cordova and one-time world-record holder Adolph Plummer, frequently originated outside artistic circles, though she also forged lifelong friendships with such classmates as Richard Masterson and Richard Hogan. She studied art and art history with professors including Les Haas, Bainbridge Bunting, John Tatschl, and Kenneth Adams. She began a course of graduate study at UNM under Clinton Adams and Van Deren Coke, but she left before completion,[5] refusing to box herself in to either the program's desire that she become a Modern painter or the dominant Western academic and critical worldview that women painters were inferior to men. Price's prime directive became to make art, rather than trying to do anything with it. She supported herself as an educational illustrator for the Westinghouse Learning Corporation from 1964 to 1969. She held her first one-woman show at the Double Mporium in Corrales, New Mexico, in 1968. In 1969 she married the poet and journalist V. B. Price, and that same year she began to focus her career entirely on her own artistry.

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Location: Saint Louis, Missouri

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