Vincent Price Art Museum
Vincent Price Art Museum is a museum in California, at a modelled elevation of 84 m. San Gabriel Peak stands 1,878 m to the north, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Sunnyslopes Park, a park 0.6 miles away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 4.9 miles off.
The story
The Vincent Price Art Museum (VPAM) is an art museum located at East Los Angeles College in Monterey Park, California, US. The museum is named after American actor Vincent Price who donated portions of his personal art collection to the college in 1957. The museum's collection now contains over 9,000 objects ranging from impressionist paintings to Japanese prints to objects from the Ancient Americas, 2,000 of which were donated by Price. It has been a venue for underrepresented artists since its founding, organizing key solo exhibitions for Los Angeles-based artists including Laura Aguilar, Carlos Almaraz, Nao Bustamante, Rafa Esparza, Judithe Hernández, Manuel López, Star Montana, Guadalupe Rosales, and Shizu Saldamando.
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Dates from 1957.
Wikidata Q62630954, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
- Operated by
- East Los Angeles Collage
- Fee
- No
How to reach it
- 4.9 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 5 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Sunnyslopes Park: 0.6 mi
- Bella Vista Park: 0.7 mi
- Belvedere Park: 0.7 mi
- Belvedere Park: 0.8 mi
- Atlantic Avenue Park: 1.0 mi
- They Fly Through Water: 0.7 mi
- Immemorial to Spiraling Ecologies of East LA: 0.8 mi
- Untitled: 2.1 mi
- Csula Wall: 2.2 mi
- Ac Box: 2.3 mi
- Armenian Genocide Martyrs Monument: 1.2 mi
- Whittier Boulevard Arch: 1.6 mi
- County of Los Angeles Fire Department Memorial: 1.7 mi
- Mexican American All Wars Memorial: 2.6 mi
- Morin Memorial Square: 2.6 mi
- Coyolxauhqui Plaza: 2.1 mi
- Citadel Outlets: 2.2 mi
- North Main and Mission: 3.9 mi
- hm157: 4.3 mi
- Misión San Gabriel Archángel: 4.6 mi
- Montebello Hills: 3.0 mi
- Oneonta Knoll: 4.4 mi
- Flat Point Park: 4.7 mi
- Ernest E. Debs: 5.0 mi
- Grace Hill: 6.0 mi
- Ascot Hills Park: 3.4 mi
- Rose Hill Park: 4.3 mi
- Bosque del Rio Hondo Natural Area: 4.6 mi
- Elysian Park: 6.0 mi
- Elyria Canyon Park: 6.2 mi
- GrowGood Urban Farm: 3.7 mi
- Solano Canyon Community Garden: 5.4 mi
- Milagro Allegro Community Garden: 5.5 mi
- South Pasadena Community Garden: 5.5 mi
- Front Garden: 5.7 mi
- Group Picnic Area: 5.5 mi
- Covered Picnic Area: 7.0 mi
- Sycamore Glen: 7.1 mi
- Art Center Food Garden: 9.3 mi
- Cedar Grove: 9.6 mi
- Mayberg Waterfall: 8.7 mi
- Bailey Canyon Falls: 10.8 mi
- Eaton Canyon Waterfall: 11.2 mi
- Ribbon Rocks Falls: 11.8 mi
- Moss Grotto Falls: 11.8 mi
- Kuruvungna Springs: 17.8 mi
- Not Much of a Spring: 19.0 mi
- Silk Tassel Spring: 19.1 mi
- Doe Spring: 19.9 mi
- Goldenrod Spring: 20.0 mi
- Mother's Beach: 18.2 mi
- El Segundo Beach: 18.3 mi
- Long Beach City Beach: 19.1 mi
- Mother's Beach: 19.4 mi
- Redondo Beach State Park: 20.1 mi
- Upper Switzer Falls Grotto: 15.1 mi
- San Pedro Escarpment: 24.6 mi
- Spa Palace: 7.1 mi
- Point Fermin Lighthouse: 24.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.0 miles of Vincent Price Art Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Gabriel Peak | N 11° | 1,878 m | 14.4 mi |
| Mount Disappointment | N 9° | 1,819 m | 14.5 mi |
| Mount Deception | N 7° | 1,767 m | 14.6 mi |
| Mount Markham | NNE 11° | 1,746 m | 14.0 mi |
| Mount Wilson | NNE 21° | 1,737 m | 13.7 mi |
| Occidental Peak | NNE 15° | 1,736 m | 14.0 mi |
| Mount Lowe | N 10° | 1,699 m | 13.5 mi |
| Monrovia Peak | NE 40° | 1,649 m | 15.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:32 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:42 | 19:31 | 20:08 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:18 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 06:55 | 16:10 | 16:48 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 57 | 58 | 61 | 63 | 67 | 71 | 75 | 77 | 75 | 69 | 62 | 57 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 4.2 | 2.5 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 2.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — SAN Gabriel Fire Dept, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element node/4115214415
Day trips start here
- Monterey Park · 2 mi
- Alhambra · 3 mi
- City of Commerce · 3 mi
- Los Angeles/Eastside · 4 mi
- Rosemead · 4 mi
- Pico Rivera · 5 mi
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