Charles Argall

     23rd CAC President

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Charles James Gladstone Argall
(1893 – 1956)

Painter. Born in San Jose, California on October 25, 1893. After graduating from the College of the Pacific, Argall settled in Los Angeles and further studied at the Chouinard Art Institute, the College of the Pacific in San Jose, and the Los Angeles County Art Institute. His teachers were Frank Tolle Chamberlin, Will Foster and Ralph Johonnet. He was a member of the California Art Club and the Los Angeles County Art Institute Alumni Association from whom he won awards as well as from the San Fernando Valley Professors Artist Guild and the Painters and Sculptors Society. He exhibited at the California State Fair, and his work is in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He died on January 27, 1956.

~ Edan Milton Hughes, Artists in California 1786 – 1940