MUSEUM OF ART ADDS TWO TRUSTEES

Toshio Nagamura, chairman of the California First Bank, and art collector Joe D. Price have joined the board of trustees at the County Museum of Art.

Nagamura is president of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Southern California and a member of the museum’s fund-raising committee for the Pavilion for Japanese Art currently under construction. He has chaired California First Bank since 1984, supervising 135 offices across the state and five overseas facilities.

Price, an Oklahoma oil man whose company built a section of the Trans Alaska pipeline, has collected Japanese art for 25 years. Four years ago, he promised his collection of Edo period (1615-1868) paintings to the County Art Museum and provided partial funding for a building to house them. The Pavilion for Japanese Art, now under construction, is expected to open late next spring.

Nagamura and Price will serve four-year terms, beginning July 1.