Stanley Grinstein (November 26, 1927 – March 2, 2014) was an American businessman, master printer, arts collector and patron, philanthropist, and social activist.
His family relocated to Los Angeles in his sophomore year and Grinstein transferred to the University of Southern California.
[1] In 1952, Grinstein married his wife, Elyse, and the two began collecting art in their home in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles.
[2] Gemini commissioned and produced prints, lithographs, monographs, and other art works by significant artists, including David Hockney, Ellsworth Kelly, Ed Kienholz, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, and Richard Serra.
[2] The Grinsteins' donation includes postcards, notes, letters, photographs, and other objects from visual artists, choreographers, composers, and writers, such as Tadao Ando, Carl Andre, Michael Asher, Larry Bell, Billy Al Bengston, Wallace Berman, Daniel Buren, William S. Burroughs, James Lee Byars, Vija Celmins, Judy Chicago, Joseph Cornell, Merce Cunningham, Mark di Suvero, Frank Gehry, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, Jasper Johns, Timothy Leary, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra, Andy Warhol, H. C. Westermann, and Hannah Wilke.