Early Los Angeles » California Art Club

This on-going project explores the art scene in Los Angeles at the start of the 20th century and includes information about art clubs, museums, local art galleries, art schools and more.

Art Galleries, Clubs, Museums, Art Schools and Teachers

(A work in progress)

This section is designed to cover some of the venues, schools and organizations relative to California Art Club members and the early Los Angeles art community that they lived in.

[Sources include the two-volume Artists in California 1786 – 1940 by Edan Milton Hughes.]

Ainslie Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Bischoff, Franz Arthur
(1864 – 1929)
Exhibited in: 1926

Henry, Harry Raymond
(1882 – 1974)
Exhibited in: 1928

Redmond, Granville Richard Seymour
(1871 – 1935)
Exhibited in: 1933

American Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Adams, Clinton (1918-2002)
Exhibited in: 1940

Barker Brothers, 818 West 7th Street, Los Angeles, CA

(pictured above w/yellow wall sign and inset)

Bailey, Harry Lewis (1879 – 1933)
Exhibited in: 1917

Bartlett, Dana (1882 – 1957)
7th CAC President, 1923

Barlow Medical Library, Los Angeles, CA

Buff, Conrad, (1886 – 1975)

Bartlett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Boehme, Hazel Fetterly (1900 – 1941)
Exhibited in: 1932

Battey Gallery, Pasadena, CA

Balfour, Helen Johnston (1847 – 1925)
Exhibited in: 1914, 1918, 1920

Daniell, William Swift (1865 – 1933)
Exhibited in: 1917

White, Orrin Augustine (1883 – 1969)
Exhibited in: 1916

Bentz Gallery, Pasadena, CA

Brown, Benjamin Chambers (1865 – 1942)
3rd CAC President
Exhibited in: 1907, 1909

Beverly Hills Art Gallery

Beverly Hills, CA
Notes: Opened in 1937 and owned by Thorwald Albertel Probst

Probst, Thorwald Albertel (1886 – 1948)

Biltmore Gallery/Salon

Located in the Biltmore Hotel (pictured above)
506 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA
Notes: The Biltmore Hotel was opened in 1923/24 by Frank Tenney Johnson (1874 – 1939) and Victor Clyde Forsythe (1885 – 1962).
Also called the Biltmore Galeria Real.