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Chronology of the CAC

1909-2011

By Eric Merrell

Below is an chronological overview of the California Art Club since it was founded in 1909. For more detailed info please refer to subsections within the History section. Last updated May 11, 2011.

1909 CAC founded mid-December

                      Frank Rensselear Liddell (1864-1923) elected as 1st CAC President
                      In office for 1909 – 1910

1910             First monthly meeting – January 5 (probable)

Second monthly meeting – February 5 @ Bischoff studio, South Pasadena

Third monthly meeting – March 5 @ Kilpatrick studio

Fourth monthly meeting – April 2 @ Art Students League, Los Angeles

Fifth meeting – April 30 @ Mocine studio

Sixth meeting – June 4 @ Liddell studio

Seventh meeting – July 2 @ Art Students League, Los Angeles

                      1st Annual Art Exhibit of the Chautauqua Association of Southern California
                      July 16 – September 15 @ Long Beach Public Library, CA
                      [First exhibit including members of the newly formed CAC]

Eighth meeting – August 6 @ Putnam & Valentine studio

Ninth meeting – September 3 @ Costello home

1911 First Annual Exhibition
January 30 – February 25 @ Hotel Ivins, Los Angeles

William Wendt (1845-1946) elected as 2nd CAC President
In office for 1911 – 1914

                      Second Annual Exhibition
                      November 22 – December 6 @ Blanchard Hall, Los Angeles
                      December 22 – January 6, 1912 @ San Francisco Art Institute
                      January (?) 1912 @ Kingsley Art Club, Sacramento

1912 Opening Exhibit
February 5 – 25, 1912 @ Royar & Neighbours Gallery, Los Angeles

Exhibition of Sketches
March 21 – 30, 1912 @ Blanchard Gallery, Los Angeles

Spring Exhibition
May 3 – 31, 1912 @ Friday Morning Club, Los Angeles

                      Third Annual Exhibition
                      November 18 – December 30, 1912 @ Blanchard Hall, Los Angeles
                      December 18, 1912 – January 2, 1913 @ San Francisco Art Institute

1913            Fourth Annual Exhibition
                      October 20 – November 8 @ Blanchard Hall, Los Angeles
                      December 8 – 20 @ San Francisco Art Institute

Art Exhibit and Reception
November, 1913 @ Long Beach Public Library Art Gallery

Monthly Meeting
December 27, 1913 @ the clubrooms, No. 424 Copp Building

1914 Monthly Meeting
January 3, 1914 @ the clubrooms, No. 424 Copp Building

Monthly Meeting
February 7, 1914 @ the clubrooms, No. 424 Copp Building

Exhibition of Sketches
February 16 – 28, 1914 @ CAC Gallery, No. 424 Copp Building, Los Angeles

Spring Exhibition
April 2 – 30, 1914 @ Friday Morning Club, Los Angeles

Monthly Meeting
May 2, 1914 @ the clubrooms, No. 424 Copp Building

A Club roster is issued; includes exhibition rules and club constitution
June 1914

Monthly Meeting
August 29, 1914 @ the clubrooms, No. 424 Copp Building

Fifth Annual Exhibition
October 7 – 31, 1914 @ Museum of History, Science and Art, Los Angeles

Monthly Meeting
November 7, 1914 @ the clubrooms, No. 424 Copp Building

1915 Special Meeting
January 16, 1915 @ the clubrooms, No. 424 Copp Building

Monthly Meeting
June 5, 1915 @ the clubrooms, No. 424 Copp Building

Monthly Meeting
June 19, 1915 @ the clubrooms, No. 424 Copp Building

Sixth Annual Exhibition
October 5 – 31, 1915 @ Museum of History, Science and Art, Los Angeles

Monthly Meeting
October 9, 1915 @ The Normal Hill Annex, Los Angeles

Monthly Meeting
November 6, 1915 @ The Normal Hill Annex, Los Angeles

First Traveling Exhibit
1915 – Sept. 1916; Opened Nov. 16, 1915 @ Vernon Public Library Branch, Los Angeles

Monthly Meeting
December 11(?), 1915 @ The Normal Hill Annex, Los Angeles

Benjamin Chambers Brown (1865-1942) elected as 3rd CAC President at Dec. meeting
In office for 1915 – 1916

1916 Club Exhibition
March 14 – ??, 1916 @ The Friday Morning Club, Los Angeles

Monthly Meeting
April 15(?), 1916 @ The Normal Hill Annex, Los Angeles

Monthly Meeting
May 13, 1916 @ The Normal Hill Annex, Los Angeles

Opening Library Exhibit (J. Duncan Gleason)
May 22 – June 17, 1916 @ The Los Angeles Public Library Music-Room

Monthly Meeting
June 17(?), 1916 @ The Normal Hill Annex, Los Angeles

Second Library Exhibit (Benjamin C. Brown)
July ?? – August 7 (?), 1916 @ The Los Angeles Public Library Music-Room

Seventh Annual Exhibition
October 5 – 31, 1916 @ Museum of History, Science and Art, Los Angeles

Second Traveling Exhibit
1916 – 1917; Opened Nov. 1, 1916 @ Arizona State Fair, Phoenix, AZ

Monthly Meeting
November 11, 1916 @ The Normal Hill Annex, Los Angeles

Special Exhibition (work from 7th Annual)
?? – December 2, 1916 @ Throop Academy, West Hall, Pasadena, CA

1917 William Wendt (1845-1946) elected as 4th CAC President (c. Dec. 1916/Jan. 1917)
In office for 1917 – 1918

Spring Exhibition
April 5 – 30, 1917 @ Museum of History, Science and Art, Los Angeles

Monthly Meeting
September 1, 1917 @ The Normal Hill Annex, Los Angeles

Eighth Annual Exhibition
October 4 – 31, 1917 @ Museum of History, Science and Art, Los Angeles

Third Traveling Exhibit
Nov. 1917 – 1918; Opened Nov. 1, 1917 @ Arizona State Fair, Phoenix, AZ

Monthly Meeting (Election of officers)
December 1, 1917 @ The Normal Hill Annex, Los Angeles

Special Meeting
December 15, 1917 @ The Normal Hill Annex, Los Angeles

1918 Spring Exhibition
April 4 – 30, 1918 @ Museum of History, Science and Art, Los Angeles

Ninth Annual Exhibition
Sept. 12 – October 10, 1918 @ Museum of History, Science and Art, Los Angeles

1919 Spring Exhibition
April 3 – 30, 1919 @ Museum of History, Science and Art, Los Angeles

Channel Pickering Townsley (1867-1921) elected as 5th CAC President
In office for 1919

Tenth Annual Exhibition
October 2 – 31, 1919 @ Museum of History, Science and Art, Los Angeles

1920 Eleventh Annual Exhibition
October 7 – November 15, 1920 @ Museum of History, Science and Art, Los Angeles

                      An Exhibition of the California Art Club of Los Angeles
                      Late 1920 @ San Diego Museum, Fine Arts Gallery
                      Hosted by the Friends of Art of San Diego

Jack Wilkinson Smith (1873-1949) elected as 6th CAC President
In office for 1920 – 1921

1921 Twelfth Annual Exhibition
October 7 – November 14, 1921 @ Los Angeles Museum

                      An Exhibition of the California Art Club of Los Angeles
                      November 18 – December 26, 1921 @ San Diego Museum, Fine Arts Gallery
                      Hosted by the Friends of Art of San Diego

1922             Exhibition of Pictures for the Building-Fund
                      October 2, 1922 @ CAC Gallery, 1027 West Seventh Street, Los Angeles
                      Around this time the club begins planning for a permanent clubhouse

Dana Bartlett (1882-1957) elected as 7th CAC President
In office for 1922 – 1923

Thirteenth Annual Exhibition
October 19 – November 19, 1922 @ Los Angeles Museum

1923 Exhibition of Pictures for the Building-Fund
January 26, 1923 @ The Los Angeles Philharmonic Auditorium

Fourteenth Annual Exhibition
November 8 – December 10, 1923 @ Los Angeles Museum

1924 Fifteenth Annual Exhibition
November 6 – December 10, 1924 @ Los Angeles Museum

Edwin Roscoe Shrader (1878-1960) serves as 8th CAC President
In office for 1924 – 1926

1925 Sixteenth Annual Exhibition
October 1 – November 1, 1925 @ Los Angeles Museum

Inaugural issue of the California Art Club Bulletin
November 1925

1926 Seventeenth Annual Exhibition
October 1926 @ Los Angeles Museum

Edgar Alwin Payne (1883-1947) serves as 9th CAC President
In office October – December 1926

1927 Edwin Roscoe Shrader (1878-1960) serves as 10th CAC President
In office 1927 – 1930

                      California Art Club Exhibit Honoring Aline Barnsdall
                      February-March 1927@ Chamber of Commerce Building, Los Angeles

                      Exhibition of the California Art Club (Bullock’s Inaugural Exhibition)
                      March 1927@ Bullock’s Department Store, Los Angeles

CAC enters 15-year lease @ Hollyhock House (Aug. 1927-42)

                      Opening Exhibition
                      August 31 – September 30, 1927 @ Hollyhock House
                      Xavier Cugat presents first American performance @ Hollyhock opening (Sept. 1, 1927)

Eighteenth Annual Exhibition
November 27 – January 1, 1927 @ Los Angeles Museum

1928 The CAC’s Antony Anderson Library is created, consisting of nearly 1,000 volumes.
January 1928

Frank Lloyd Wright and his son Lloyd Wright visit CAC forum meeting.
February 1928

Selected Paintings by Conrad Buff, E. Roscoe Shrader amd Stanton MacDonald Wright
September 1928 @ California Art Club Gallery (Hollyhock House)

Nineteenth Annual Exhibition
November 8 – December 16, 1928 @ Los Angeles Museum

1929 Conductor Leopold Stokowski visits CAC (January 1929)

Architect Richard Neutra and Franz K. Ferenz, Director of the Plaza Art Gallery on Olvera
Street, join CAC (February 1929)

Twentieth Annual Exhibition
November 8 – December 1929 @ Los Angeles Museum

CAC hosts the first Black American Art Exhibition in Los Angeles
December 1 – 14, 1929 @ Hollyhock House

1930 Julian Ellsworth Garnsey (1887-1969) serves as 11th CAC President
In office from May 1930 – April 1931

Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco visits CAC meeting (April 1930)

Twenty-First Annual Exhibition
November 7 – December 31, 1930 @ Los Angeles Museum

1931 Twenty-Second Annual Exhibition
November 12 – December 31, 1931 @ Los Angeles Museum

Paul Starrett Sample (1896-1974) serves as 12th CAC President
In office for 1931

1932 Robert Merrell Gage (1892-1981) serves as 13th CAC President
In office for 1932 – 1933

Illustrator Dean Cornwell joins CAC (April 1932)

                     Muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros is guest speaker @ CAC meeting (June 1932)

                     Mexican artist Alfredo Ramos Martinez joins CAC (June 1932)

Twenty-Third Annual Exhibition
November 18 – December 31, 1932 @ Los Angeles Museum

1933 Spring Exhibition
April 1933 @ Egan Art Gallery, Los Angeles

Twenty-Fourth Annual Exhibition
November 3 – December 31, 1933 @ Los Angeles Museum

1934 Edwin Roscoe Shrader (1878-1960) serves as 14th CAC President
In office for 1934

[No issues of the CAC Bulletin dating from 1933-41 are currently known. However, in the Los
Angeles Times (Fred Hogue, Native Artists Must Paint California's Masterpieces, July 22, 1934) we find this: "The California Art News, monthly publication of the California Art Club, whose home is on the summit of Olive Hill in Barnsdall Park, announces that it 'covers the West's greatest art district.'"]

Twenty-Fifth Annual Exhibition
November 15 – December 31, 1934 @ Los Angeles Museum

Monthly Meeting December ??, 1934 @ Barnsdall Park
Entertainment by L.A. Music Teachers Assoc.

1935 Monthly Meeting January 18, 1935 @ Barnsdall Park
Featuring Ferdinand Perret

Frank Tenney Johnson (1874-1939) serves as 15th CAC President
In office for 1935 – 1938

Twenty-Sixth Annual Exhibition
November 16 – December 31, 1935 @ Los Angeles Museum

                      New Year’s Eve Beaux-Arts Ball (1935) – Episode 2 of A Night in Venice: "In Titian’s Studio"
                      Presented by the CAC "and other artists groups" (McCracken, FTJ’s Western Paintings, 1974)
                      Pres. F. T. Johnson played Titian, his wife Vinne played Orsa

1936 Twenty-Seventh Annual Exhibition
November 12 – December 31, 1936 @ Los Angeles Museum

1937 Exhibition of the California Art Club
October 1937 @ Ebell Salon, Los Angeles

Twenty-Eighth Annual Exhibition
November 18 – December 31, 1937 @ Los Angeles Museum

1938 Twenty-Ninth Annual Exhibition
November 18 – December 31, 1938 @ Los Angeles Museum

1939 Thirtieth Annual Exhibition
(unknown location)

Ralph Holmes (1876-1963) serves as 16th CAC President
In office for 1939 – 1941

1940 Thirty-First Annual Exhibition
(unknown location)

1941 Thirty-Second Annual Exhibition
(unknown location)

1942 The fifteen-year lease for Hollyhock House expires. After briefly giving the CAC an extension of their lease in January 1942, L.A. Parks Commission forces CAC to abandon Olive Hill by March. CAC then establishes a temporary headquarters at Plummer Park until about August 1942, when they begin meeting at the Woman’s Club of Hollywood.

Paul Lauritz (1889-1975) serves as 17th CAC President
In office c.1942 – 1943

Thirty-Third Annual Exhibition
@ Greek Theatre, Griffith Park

Monthly Meeting August 21, 1942 @ the Woman’s Club of Hollywood
Featuring George Barker

Monthly Meeting September 18, 1942 @ the Woman’s Club of Hollywood
Featuring Millard Sheets

Monthly Meeting October 16, 1942 @ the Woman’s Club of Hollywood
Featuring Merrell Gage

Monthly Meeting November 20, 1942 @ the Woman’s Club of Hollywood
Featuring Fred Serson

Monthly Meeting December 18, 1942 @ the Woman’s Club of Hollywood
Featuring Harold Dryselius, A.B., L.L.B.

1943 Monthly Meeting January 15, 1943 @ the Woman’s Club of Hollywood
Featuring Lorser Feitelson

Monthly Meeting February 19, 1943 @ the Woman’s Club of Hollywood
Featuring Albert H. King and Stanley Reckless

Monthly Meeting March 19, 1943 @ the Woman’s Club of Hollywood
Featuring Henri DeKruif

Monthly Meeting April 16, 1943 @ the Woman’s Club of Hollywood
Featuring Arthur Millier

Monthly Meeting May 21, 1943 @ the Woman’s Club of Hollywood
Featuring Mildred Bryant Brooks

Monthly Meeting June 18, 1943 @ the Woman’s Club of Hollywood
Featuring Sam Hyde Harris

Monthly Meeting July 16, 1943 @ the Woman’s Club of Hollywood
Featuring (film of ) Wayman Adams, and Fred Serson

Monthly Meeting August 20, 1943 @ the Woman’s Club of Hollywood
Featuring Will Foster

Monthly Meeting September 17, 1943 @ the Woman’s Club of Hollywood
Featuring Clyde Forsythe

Monthly Meeting October 22, 1943 @ the Masonic Temple
Featuring Edgar Payne

Monthly Meeting November 26, 1943 @ the Masonic Temple
Featuring Roger Noble Burham, Edgardo Simone, Radie Britain and other sculptors

Monthly Meeting December 24, 1943 @ the Masonic Temple
Featuring Ralph Holmes

Thirty-Fourth Annual Exhibition
@ Greek Theatre, Griffith Park

1944 Thirty-Fifth Annual Exhibition
?? – October 29, 1944 @ Los Angeles Museum

Monthly Meeting January 28, 1944 @ the Masonic Temple
Featuring Jimmy Swinnerton

Monthly Meeting February 25, 1944 @ the Masonic Temple
Featuring Arthur Beaumont

Monthly Meeting March ??, 1944 @ the Masonic Temple
Featuring Arthur Ruider

Monthly Meeting April 28, 1944 @ the Masonic Temple
Featuring Jason Herron

John Hubbard Rich (1876-1954) elected 18th CAC President
In office for May 1944 – 1945

Monthly Meeting May 26, 1944 @ the Masonic Temple
Featuring Joe Waano-Gano and wife Christine Noonan

Monthly Meeting June 23, 1944 @ the Masonic Temple
Featuring Manuel Perez

Monthly Meeting July 28, 1944 @ the Masonic Temple
Featuring Paul Jordan-Smith

Monthly Meeting August 25, 1944 @ the Masonic Temple
Featuring John Hubbard Rich

Monthly Meeting September 22, 1944 @ the Masonic Temple
Featuring Paul Lauritz

Monthly Meeting October 27, 1944 @ the Masonic Temple
Featuring Manuel Perez

Monthly Meeting November 24, 1944 @ the Masonic Temple
Featuring Edgar Payne

                     Monthly Meeting December 22, 1944 @ the Masonic Temple
                  Featuring Bruce Russell, Carl Huebenthal, John Mallony, "Ferg" Ferguson, Clyde Forsythe and
                  Jimmy Swinnerton

1945 Monthly Meeting January 26, 1945 @ the Masonic Temple
Featuring Charles W. Eliot II and Charles B. Bennett; Mayor Bowron, Supervisor John Anson Ford and Wm. H. Schuchardt, guests

Monthly Meeting February 23, 1945 @ the Masonic Temple
Featuring Millard Sheets

Monthly Meeting March 16, 1945 @ Channing Hall, First Unitarian Church
Featuring Philip Paval and Evelyn White

Monthly Meeting April 20, 1945 @ Channing Hall, First Unitarian Church
Featuring Norman Rockwell, Meade Schaeffer and Clyde Forsythe

Benton Francis Scott (1907-1983) elected 19th CAC President
In office May 1945 – May 1946

[No Monthly Meetings during summer 1945]

CAC loses annual exhibition space @ County Museum

Monthly Meeting September 21, 1945 @ Channing Hall, First Unitarian Church
Featuring Robert Stacy-Judd

Monthly Meeting October 19, 1945 @ Channing Hall, First Unitarian Church
Featuring Stan Poray

Monthly Meeting November 16, 1945 @ Channing Hall, First Unitarian Church
Featuring Gregor Norman-Wilcox

Monthly Meeting December 21, 1945 @ Channing Hall, First Unitarian Church
Featuring Paul Lauritz

Thirty-Sixth Annual Exhibition
(unknown location)

1946 Monthly Meeting January 18, 1946 @ Channing Hall, First Unitarian Church
Featuring Edward Withers

Monthly Meeting February 16, 1946 @ Channing Hall, First Unitarian Church
Featuring Roger Noble Burnham

Monthly Meeting March 15, 1946 @ Channing Hall, First Unitarian Church
Featuring Rosita

Monthly Meeting April 19, 1946 @ Channing Hall, First Unitarian Church
Featuring Sarita, Fatima, Zoraida and Jose Heredia

Monthly Meeting May 17, 1946 @ Channing Hall, First Unitarian Church
Featuring Penryhn Stanlaws

Monthly Meeting June 21, 1946 @ Channing Hall, First Unitarian Church
Featuring James H. Breasted, Jr., Dr. William R. Valentiner, Alma May Cook, Kay English, Herman Reuter, and Arthur Millier

Edward Oscar Withers (1896-1964) elected 20th CAC President
In office June 1946 – May 1947

[No Monthly Meetings during summer 1946]

Thirty-Seventh Annual Exhibition
(unknown location)

                      First Annual G.I. Art Exhibit
                      August 4 – Sept. 9, 1946 @ Museum of History, Science and Art, Exposition Park, L.A.
                      Co-Sponsored by CAC and Veterans Administration

Monthly Meeting September 20, 1946 @ Channing Hall, First Unitarian Church
Featuring Robert Noble Burnham and Helen Murdock

Monthly Meeting October 18, 1946 @ Channing Hall, First Unitarian Church
Featuring Sam Hyde Harris

Monthly Meeting November 15, 1946 @ Channing Hall, First Unitarian Church
Featuring Nordica D’Orsay

Monthly Meeting December 20, 1946 @ Channing Hall, First Unitarian Church
Featuring a Christmas Party

1947 Monthly Meeting January 17, 1947 @ Channing Hall, First Unitarian Church
Featuring Lt. Commander Arthur Beaumont

Monthly Meeting February 21, 1947 @ Channing Hall, First Unitarian Church
Featuring Edgardo Simone and wife Radie Britain

Monthly Meeting March 21, 1947 @ Griffith Park Playground Clubhouse
Featuring Jimmy Swinnerton

Monthly Meeting April 18, 1947 @ Griffith Park Playground Clubhouse
Featuring Merlin Enabnit

200+ CAC members protest outside ‘modern’ exhibit @ L.A. County Museum
May 15, 1947 (Covered in Life magazine)

Monthly Meeting May 16, 1947 @ Griffith Park Playground Clubhouse
Featuring Ralph Holmes

Edward Emile Chiapella (1879-1951) elected 21st CAC President
In office June 1947 – May 1949

Monthly Meeting June 20, 1947 @ Griffith Park Playground Clubhouse
Featuring Edward Withers

[No Monthly Meetings during July and August, 1947]

Thirty-Eighth Annual Exhibition
(unknown location)

Monthly Meeting September 19, 1947 @ Rexall Square
Featuring Lewis Physioc

Monthly Meeting October 17, 1947 @ Rexall Square
Featuring Henry van Wolf

Monthly Meeting November 21, 1947 @ Rexall Square
Featuring Gerome de Rollin

                     Monthly Meeting December 19, 1947 @ Rexall Square
                  Featuring Louise Nimmo, Orpha Klinker, Ralph Holmes, James Swinnerton, Roger Noble
                  Burnham, and Jacques de Beaufort

1948 Monthly Meeting January ??, 1948 @ Rexall Square
Featuring ??

Monthly Meeting February ??, 1948 @ Rexall Square
Featuring Duncan and Dorothy Gleason

Monthly Meeting March 19, 1948 @ Rexall Square
Featuring Loren Barton

Monthly Meeting April 16, 1948 @ Rexall Square
Featuring Elsie Payne

[No Monthly Meetings during summer 1948]

Monthly Meeting September 17, 1948 @ Rexall Square
Featuring Herbert Ryman

Monthly Meeting October 15, 1948 @ Rexall Square
Featuring Roger Noble Burnham

Monthly Meeting November 19, 1948 @ Rexall Square
Featuring Jimmy Swinnerton

Monthly Meeting December 17, 1948 @ Rexall Square
Featuring a Pre-Christmas Party

Thirty-Ninth Annual Exhibition
(unknown location)

1949 Monthly Meeting January ??, 1949 @ Rexall Square
Featuring Ralph Holmes

Monthly Meeting February 18, 1949 @ Rexall Square
Featuring Jeffrey Machamer

Monthly Meeting March 18, 1949 @ Rexall Square
Featuring Paul Lauritz

Monthly Meeting April 15, 1949 @ Rexall Square
Featuring Andrew Loomis

The Club owned two paintings by William Wendt and Jack Wilkinson Smith, later adding a Charles Bensco and a John Hubbard Rich. The Rich painting was titled "The Yellow Tea-Pot." The last we hear of the Wendt painting is when its guardian Clarence Izant gave it to CAC President Edward Chiapella shortly before Izant passed away April 20, 1949. The whereabouts of the CAC Art Collection is unknown.

Monthly Meeting May 20, 1949 @ Rexall Square
Featuring Dr. R. W. Mueller

[No Monthly Meetings during June-July-August 1949]

Fortieth Annual Exhibition
@ Greek Theatre, Griffith Park

Innocenzo Daraio (1903-1993) elected 22nd CAC President
In office June 1949 – May 1951

Monthly Meeting September 16, 1949 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Dr. Mars Baumgardt

Monthly Meeting October 21, 1949 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Captain Al Adams

New CAC Gold Medals are designed and donated to the Club by Henry van Wolf
October 1949

Monthly Meeting November 18, 1949 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Guido Nelli

Monthly Meeting December 16, 1949 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Paul Lauritz and Lewis V. Meehan

1950 Monthly Meeting January 20, 1950 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring John Garth

Monthly Meeting February 17, 1950 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Will Foster

Monthly Meeting March 17, 1950 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring John Garth

Monthly Meeting April 21, 1950 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Henry van Wolf and Catherine Jackson

Monthly Meeting May 19, 1950 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Milt Gross

[No Monthly Meetings during June-July-August 1950]

Forty-First Annual Exhibition
(unknown location)

Monthly Meeting September 15, 1950 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Rex Brandt

Monthly Meeting October 20, 1950 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Geno Pettit and Guy Maccoy

Monthly Meeting November 17, 1950 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Joe Waano-Gano

Monthly Meeting December 15, 1950 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Paul Lauritz

1951 Monthly Meeting January 19, 1951 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring George Barker

Monthly Meeting February 16, 1951 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Roger Terry Barr and Kenneth Ross

Monthly Meeting March 16, 1951 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Leon Franks

Monthly Meeting April 20, 1951 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Dr. Yu-Shan Han

Monthly Meeting May 18, 1951 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Herbert Ryman

Charles James Gladstone Argall (1893-1956) elected 23rd CAC President
In office June 1951 – May 1953

[No Monthly Meetings during June-July-August 1951]

Monthly Meeting September 21, 1951 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring George Gibson

Monthly Meeting October 19, 1951 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Paul Puzinas

Monthly Meeting November 16, 1951 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Mildred Zimmerman

Monthly Meeting December 21, 1951 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Paul Lauritz

Forty-Second Annual Exhibition
@ Greek Theatre, Griffith Park

1952 Monthly Meeting January 18, 1952 (Cancelled due to rain, rescheduled for Feb.)

Monthly Meeting February 15, 1952 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Philip Paval

Monthly Meeting March 21, 1952 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring George Polkinghorn and Manuel Perez

Monthly Meeting April 18, 1952 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring George Chan

Monthly Meeting May 16, 1952 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Jimmy Swinnerton

[No Monthly Meetings during June-July-August 1952]

Forty-Third Annual Exhibition
(unknown location)

Monthly Meeting Septermber 19, 1952 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Paul Puzinas

Monthly Meeting October 17, 1952 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Goldie Harding

Monthly Meeting November 21, 1952 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Clyde Forsythe

Monthly Meeting December 19, 1952 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Will Foster

1953 Monthly Meeting January 16, 1953 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring John Hubbard Rich, guests Dr. Rufus von Klein-Schmid and Bishop Bertram Stevens

Monthly Meeting February 20, 1953 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Joshua Meador

Monthly Meeting March 20, 1953 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring George Barker

Monthly Meeting April 17, 1953 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring John Plumer Ludlum

Monthly Meeting May 15, 1953 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Oswell Jackson

[No Monthly Meetings during June-July-August 1953]

Forty-Fourth Annual Exhibition
@ Tower Gallery, Los Angeles City Hall

Philip Kran Paval (1899-1971) elected 24th CAC President
In office June 1953 – May 1956

Monthly Meeting September 18, 1953 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Emil Kosa, Jr.

Monthly Meeting October 16, 1953 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Benton Scott

Monthly Meeting November 20, 1953 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring George Chan

Monthly Meeting December 11, 1953 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Paul Lauritz

1954 Monthly Meeting January 15, 1954 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Joshua Meador

Monthly Meeting February 19, 1954 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Noel Quinn

Monthly Meeting March 19, 1954 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Glen Edward Turner

Monthly Meeting April 16, 1954 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Ralph Holmes

Monthly Meeting May 21, 1954 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Charles Coburn, and Mr. and Mrs. Knudsen

[No Monthly Meetings during June-July-August 1954]

Sir Winston Churchill accepts invitation to join the CAC (May 1954)

Forty-Fifth Annual Exhibition
(unknown location)

Monthly Meeting September 17, 1954 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Oscar van Young

Monthly Meeting October 15, 1954 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Francis de Erderly

Monthly Meeting November 19, 1954 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Millard Sheets

Monthly Meeting December 17, 1954 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Paul Lauritz

1955 Monthly Meeting January 21, 1955 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Paul Puzinas

Monthly Meeting February 18, 1955 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Jean Hersholt

Monthly Meeting March 18, 1955 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Charles B. Rogers

Monthly Meeting April 15, 1955 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring George Barker and George C. Barker

Monthly Meeting May 20, 1955 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Deno Sider

[No Monthly Meetings during June-July-August 1955]

Forty-Sixth Annual Exhibition
@ Greek Theatre, Griffith Park

Monthly Meeting September 16, 1955 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Benton Scott

Monthly Meeting October 21, 1955 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Leon Franks

Monthly Meeting November 18, 1955 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Art Rider

Monthly Meeting December 20, 1955 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Paul Lauritz

1956 Monthly Meetings January-March 1956 @ Rancho Golf Club House
(unknown dates or featured guest(s)

Monthly Meeting April 20, 1956 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Ralph Holmes

Monthly Meetings May- September 1956 @ Rancho Golf Club House
(unknown dates or featured guest(s)

Forty-Seventh Annual Exhibition
(unknown location)

Frank Leslie Sandford (1891-1977) elected 25th CAC President
In office June 1956 – April 1957

Monthly Meeting October 19, 1956 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Clem Hall

Monthly Meeting Novmeber 16, 1956 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Paul Lauritz

Monthly Meeting December 14, 1956 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Ralph H. Love

1957 Monthly Meeting January 18, 1957 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Gilbert Edwin McLaughlin

Monthly Meeting February 15, 1957 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Merrell Gage

Monthly Meeting March 15, 1957 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring James Milford Zornes

Monthly Meeting April 19, 1957 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Sergei Bongart

Monthly Meeting May 17, 1957 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Arla Franklin

Forty-Eighth Annual Exhibition
(unknown location)

Walter Fredrick Seely (1886-1959) elected 26th CAC President
In office May 1957 – May 1959

[No Monthly Meetings during summer 1957]

Monthly Meeting September 20, 1957 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Benton Scott

Monthly Meeting October 18, 1957 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Linford Donovan

Monthly Meeting November 15, 1957 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Paul Lauritz

1958 Monthly Meeting January 17, 1958 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring George Barker

Monthly Meeting February 20, 1958 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Andrew Athan Tagaris

Monthly Meeting March 21, 1958 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Sergei Bongart

Monthly Meeting April 18, 1958 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Andrew Kalmon Aron

Monthly Meeting May 16, 1958 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Andrew Loomis

[No Monthly Meetings during summer 1958]

Forty-Ninth Annual Exhibition
(unknown location)

Monthly Meeting October 17, 1958 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Philip Paval

Monthly Meeting November 21, 1958 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Paul Lauritz

Monthly Meeting December 17, 1958 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring a Christmas Party

1959 Monthly Meeting January 16, 1959 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Joshua Meadow

Monthly Meeting February 20, 1959 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Mary Jarrett

Monthly Meeting March 20, 1959 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Rex Brandt

Monthly Meeting April 17, 1959 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Walt Allen Smith

Monthly Meeting May 15, 1959 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring James Milford Zornes

[No Monthly Meetings during summer 1959]

Fiftieth Annual Exhibition
March 15 – 29 @ Greek Theatre, Griffith Park

Jose Drudis-Biada (1890-1985) elected 27th CAC President
In office June 1959 - May 1960

Monthly Meeting September 18, 1959 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Blessing Le Mohn

Monthly Meeting October 16, 1959 @ Mona Lisa Restaurant
Featuring Harold Stephenson and Jimmy Swinnerton

Monthly Meeting November ??, 1959 @ ??
Featuring ?? (page glued to scrapbook, unreadable)

1960 Monthly Meeting January 15, 1960 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Betty Blue

Monthly Meeting February 19, 1960 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Frances Nugent

Monthly Meeting March 18, 1960 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Wayne La Com

Monthly Meeting April 15, 1960 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Pamela Mason

Monthly Meeting May ??, 1960 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Arthur Beaumont

Monthly Meeting June 17, 1960 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Herbert Ryman

Fifty-First Annual Exhibition
(unknown location)

Horace Edmund "H. E." Huey (1895-1963) elected 28th CAC President
In office June 1960 – May 1961

Monthly Meeting July 16, 1960 @ Banquet Room, Hotel Laguna, Laguna Beach
Featured a dinner and trip to the Pageant of the Masters

Monthly Meeting September 16, 1960 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Sergei Bongart

Monthly Meeting October 21, 1960 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring John de Wilde

Monthly Meeting November 18, 1960 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Victor Houser

1961 Exhibition
January 10 – 27, 1961 @ Wilshire Federal Savings Art Salon

Monthly Meeting January 20, 1961 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Sam Hyde Harris

Monthly Meeting February 17, 1961 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Merrell Gage

Monthly Meeting March 17, 1961 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Emil Kosa, Jr.

Monthly Meeting April 21, 1961 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Col. S. R. Kerr

Monthly Meeting May 19, 1961 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Beatrix Maureen McCullen

[No Monthly Meeting during July 1961]

Victor Stanley Matson (1895-1972) elected 29th CAC President
In office June 1961 – 1962

Fifty-Second Annual Exhibition
(unknown location)

Monthly Meeting September 15, 1961 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring John Hilton

1962 Fifty-Third Annual Exhibition
(unknown location)

1963 Fifty-Fourth Annual Exhibition
(unknown location)

Herbert Dickens Ryman (1910-1989) serves as 30th CAC President
In office for 1963

1964            Fifty-Fifth Annual Exhibition
                      (unknown location)

                      Victor Carl Houser (1895-1972) serves as 31st CAC President
                       In office for 1964

1965 Fifty-Sixth Annual Exhibition
(unknown location)

Monthly Meeting April 16, 1965 @ Rancho Golf Club House

Joseph Morgan Henninger (1906-1999) serves as 32nd CAC President
In office for 1965

1966 Fifty-Seventh Annual Exhibition
(unknown location)

M. Hale Brown (1901-1987) serves as 33rd CAC President
In office for 1966-68

CAC Art Salon
November 1966 @ The Ebell Club, Los Angeles

1967 Fifty-Eighth Annual Exhibition
March 19 – 31, 1967 @ Prudential Savings and Loan Building, Culver City

1968 Fifty-Ninth Annual Exhibition
March 18 – ??, 1968 @ The Pavilion, Los Angeles

Monthly Meeting April 19, 1968 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Robert Schaar

1969 Sixtieth Annual Exhibition
(unknown location)

Monthly Meeting October 17, 1969 @ Rancho Golf Club House
Featuring Donald "Putt" Puttman

Robert Scharr (b.1932) serves as 34th CAC President
In office 1969-70

1970 Sixty-First Annual Exhibition
(unknown location)

Kaffy Reinhardt (1918-1992) serves as 35th CAC President (First woman)
In office 1970-74

Monthly Meeting November 20, 1970 @ Fox & Hounds Restaurant
Featuring Joyce Pike

1971 Sixty-Second Annual Exhibition
(unknown location)

Monthly Meeting February 19, 1971 @ Fox & Hounds Restaurant
Featuring Robert E. Wood

Monthly Meeting May 21, 1971 @ Fox & Hounds Restaurant
Featuring Herbert Ryman

Monthly Meeting October 15, 1971 @ Fox & Hounds Restaurant
Featuring Joe Mugnaini

1972 Sixty-Third Annual Exhibition
(unknown location)

1973 Sixty-Fourth Annual Exhibition
June 4 – 15, 1973 @ California Federal Savings Building, Los Angeles

1974 Sixty-Fifth Annual Exhibition
May 1 – 31, 1974 @ California Art Club Gallery, Westwood

Henry Ketting Olivier (1924-2004) serves as 36th CAC President
In office 1974-77

Minishow
November 1974 @ CAC Gallery, Westwood

1975 Sixty-Sixth Annual Exhibition
May 5 – June 6, 1975 @ California Art Club Gallery, Westwood

Membership Show
September 29 – October 31, 1975 @ CAC Gallery, Westwood

                     Monthly Meeting October 5, 1975 @ Tudor Room, Holiday Inn, Westwood
                     Featuring Joyce Pike

                      Minishow
                      November 1975@ CAC Gallery, Westwood

1976 Sixty-Seventh Annual Exhibition
May 9 – 21, 1976 @ Equitable Plaza, Los Angeles

Monthly Meeting May ??, 1976 @ Tudor Room, Holiday Inn, Westwood
Featuring Vincent Farrell

Monthly Meeting June 6, 1976 @ Tudor Room, Holiday Inn, Westwood
Featuring Walter Roberts

Minishow
November, 1976 @ CAC Gallery, Westwood

1977 Sixty-Eighth Annual Exhibition
October 1977 @ Unknown location

Jean Blanchard serves as 37th CAC President
In office 1977-81

Monthly Meeting November 6, 1977 @ Tudor Room, Holiday Inn, Westwood
Featuring Jake Lee

1978 Sixty-Ninth Annual Exhibition
@ Sumitomo Bank, Sherman Oaks

Monthly Meeting February 4, 1978 @ Tudor Room, Holiday Inn, Westwood
Featuring Lynn Gertenbach

1979 Seventieth Annual Exhibition
October 6 – 30, 1979 @ Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale

1980 Exhibit of Fine Art
April 1980 @ Office of the Governor of CA

Monthly Meeting April 13, 1980 @ Tudor Room, Holiday Inn, Westwood
Featuring Karl Albert

Seventy-First Annual Exhibition
(unknown location)

1981 Seventy-Second Annual Exhibition
(unknown location)

Henry Ketting Olivier (1924-2004) serves as 38th CAC President
In office 1981 – June 1985

1982 Seventy-Third Annual Exhibition
October 9 – November 2, 1982 @ Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale

1983 Seventy-Fourth Annual Exhibition
(unknown location)

Monthly Meeting June 5, 1983 @ The Los Angeles Press Club
Featuring Jake Lee

Monthly Meeting December 4, 1983 @ The Los Angeles Press Club
Featuring Vincent Farrell

1984 Seventy-Fifth Annual Exhibition
(unknown location)

Monthly Meeting October 7, 1984 @ Tail-O-The-Cock
Featuring Ron McKee

Monthly Meeting December ??, 1984 @ Tail-O-The-Cock
Featuring Helen Newman

1985 Monthly Meeting January ??, 1985 @ Tail-O-The-Cock
Featuring Rungsun (Sunny) Apinchapong

Monthly Meeting February 3, 1985 @ Tail-O-The-Cock
Featuring Myrna McKee

Monthly Meeting March ??, 1985 @ Tail-O-The-Cock
Featuring James Nastasia

Monthly Meeting March 31, 1985 @ Beverly Hillcrest Hotel
Featuring R. C. Stanley

Monthly Meeting May 5, 1985 @ Holiday Inn, Van Nuys
Featuring Jake Lee

Monthly Meeting June 2, 1985 @ Beverly Hillcrest Hotel
Featuring Donald Roache

Seventy-Sixth Annual Exhibition
@ Sumitomo Bank, Sherman Oaks

Renato Contini (d. 1985) serves as 39th CAC President
In office July 1985 (Contini dies after one month in office)

Carol Rensen serves as 40th CAC President
In office August 1985 – June 1989

Monthly Meeting September 8, 1985 @ Beverly Hillcrest Hotel
Featuring Dick Burg

Monthly Meeting October 6, 1985 @ Beverly Hillcrest Hotel
Featuring Wellington T. C. Lei

Monthly Meeting November 3, 1985 @ Beverly Hillcrest Hotel
Featuring Katee Brandon

Monthly Meeting December 1, 1985 @ Beverly Hillcrest Hotel
Featuring Gerald Brommer

1986 Monthly Meeting January ??, 1986 @ Beverly Hillcrest Hotel
Featuring Wayne La Com

Seventy-Seventh Annual Exhibition
February 3 – 28, 1986 @ Sumitomo Bank, Sherman Oaks

Monthly Meeting February ??, 1986 @ Beverly Hillcrest Hotel
Featuring Don "Putt" Puttman

Monthly Meeting March ??, 1986 @ ?? (Bulletin missing)
Featuring ??

Monthly Meeting April 6, 1986 @ Beverly Hillcrest Hotel
Featuring Karen Martin

Monthly Meeting May 4, 1986 @ Les Freres Taix Restaurant
Featuring Karl Albert

Monthly Meeting June 1, 1986 @ Les Freres Taix Restaurant
Featuring Chet Collum

Monthly Meeting September 7, 1986 @ Les Freres Taix Restaurant
Featuring Barbara Sandifer

Monthly Meeting October 5, 1986 @ Les Freres Taix Restaurant
Featuring Glenna Kurz

Monthly Meeting November 2, 1986 @ Les Freres Taix Restaurant
Featuring Mentor Hubner

Monthly Meeting December 7, 1986 @ Les Freres Taix Restaurant
Featuring Bruce Spicer

1987 Monthly Meeting January 4, 1987 @ Les Freres Taix Restaurant
Featuring Bob Bates

Paint-Out: Paramount Ranch, January 18, 1987

Monthly Meeting February 1, 1987 @ Les Freres Taix Restaurant
Featuring Neil Boyle

Seventy-Eighth Annual Exhibition
February 2 – 27, 1987 @ Sumitomo Bank, Sherman Oaks

Paint-Out: Devil’s Punch Bowl, February 15, 1987

Monthly Meeting March ??, 1987 @ Les Freres Taix Restaurant
Featuring Dory Grade

Paint-Out: Travel Town, Griffith Park, March 15, 1987

Monthly Meeting April 5, 1987 @ Les Freres Taix Restaurant
Featuring Ed Brookins

Paint-Out: Gorman, April 19, 1987

Monthly Meeting May 3, 1987 @ Les Freres Taix Restaurant
Featuring Sam McKim

Paint-Out: Port of Call Berth 77, May 18, 1987

Paint-Out: ??, June ??, 1987

Monthly Meeting June 7, 1987 @ Les Freres Taix Restaurant
Featuring Don Roache

Monthly Meeting September 13, 1987 @ Les Freres Taix Restaurant
Featuring Don Roache

Monthly Meeting October 4, 1987 @ Les Freres Taix Restaurant
Featuring ??

Monthly Meeting November 1, 1987 @ Les Freres Taix Restaurant
Featuring Nona Taylor

Paint-Out: ?? November ??, 1987

Monthly Meeting December 6, 1987 @ Les Freres Taix Restaurant
Featuring Budd Sherrick

1988 Monthly Meeting January 3, 1988 @ Les Freres Taix Restaurant
Featuring Mikail Abolfathi

Paint-Out: Frazier Park, January 23-24, 1988

Seventy-Ninth Annual Exhibition
February 1 – 26, 1988 @ Sumitomo Bank, Sherman Oaks

Monthly Meeting February 7, 1988 @ Les Freres Taix Restaurant
Featuring Luce Felts

Paint-Out: Chatsworth Park, February 28, 1988

Monthly Meeting March 5, 1988 @ Airtel Plaza Hotel
Featuring Gold Medal Show Awards Banquet

Paint-Out: Calico Ghost Town, March ??, 1988

Monthly Meeting April 10, 1988 @ Les Freres Taix Restaurant
Featuring Robert Williams

Paint-Out: Rancho Sierra Vista, April 24, 1988

Monthly Meeting May 1, 1988 @ Les Freres Taix Restaurant
Featuring Urania Christy Tarbet

Paint-Out: ??, May ??, 1988

Monthly Meeting June 5, 1988 @ Les Freres Taix Restaurant
Featuring Joseph Mendez

Monthly Meeting October 2, 1988 @ Les Freres Taix Restaurant
Featuring Robert Williams

Paint-Out: Chase Park, Marina Del Rey, October ??, 1988

Monthly Meeting November 6, 1988 @ Les Freres Taix Restaurant
Featuring Katee Brandon

Paint-Out: Oak Grove Park, Arroyo Seco, November 20, 1988

Monthly Meeting December 4, 1988 @ Les Freres Taix Restaurant
Featuring Ben Abril

Paint-Out: L.A. Arboretum, December 18, 1988

1989 Monthly Meeting January 8, 1989 @ Les Freres Taix Restaurant
Featuring George Labadie

Monthly Meeting February 5, 1989 @ Les Freres Taix Restaurant
Featuring Don Miles

Eightieth Annual Exhibition
February 6 – 28, 1989 @ Sumitomo Bank, Sherman Oaks

Paint-Out: Solvang/Santa Ynez, February 25-26, 1989

Monthly Meeting March ??, 1989 @ Les Freres Taix Restaurant
Featuring Ken Decker

Monthly Meeting April 2, 1989 @ Les Freres Taix Restaurant
Featuring Louise DeMore

Paint-Out: Palm Springs/Palm Desert, April 22-23, 1989

Monthly Meeting May 7, 1989 @ Les Freres Taix Restaurant
Featuring Linda Lee

Paint-Out: Eaton Canyon, May 28, 1989

Monthly Meeting June 4, 1989 @ Les Freres Taix Restaurant
Featuring Joseph Mendez

Siegfried Conrad "Sig" Vogel (b. 1917) serves as 41st CAC President
In office October – December 1989

Monthly Meeting October 1, 1989 @ Les Freres Taix Restaurant
Featuring Phyllis Markwith

Monthly Meeting November 5, 1989 @ Les Freres Taix Restaurant
Featuring Mary Miears-Cutsinger

Monthly Meeting December 3, 1989 @ Les Freres Taix Restaurant
Featuring Keith Ward

1990 Eighty-First Annual Exhibition
February 10 – March 3, 1990 @ Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale

Carol Rensen serves as 42nd CAC President
In office January – December 1990

1991 Eighty-Second Annual Exhibition
February 3 – 28, 1991 @ Los Angeles Chinese Cultural Service Center, Alhambra

Charles I. Harris (b.1922) serves as 43rd CAC President
In office January 1991 – June 1993

1992 Eighty-Third Annual Exhibition
March 8 – 14, 1992 @ Business Men’s Art Institute, Culver City

1993 The Eighty-Fourth Annual Exhibition was never held due to lack of a venue.

Peter Seitz Adams (b.1950) elected 44th CAC President
In office since October 1993

1994 font color=”#FF3300″>The CAC Bulletin becomes the California Art Club Newsletter (Summer 1994)

Eighty-Fifth Annual Exhibition
July 9 – 17, 1994 @ Los Angeles Arboretum

1995 Eighty-Sixth Annual Exhibition
July 8 – 16, 1995 @ Los Angeles Arboretum

1st Annual Plein Air Painting Event at Mission San Juan Capistrano
August 14 – 20, 1995

Modern Masters of Landscape Painting
November 1995 @ The Craftsman’s Guild and California Heritage Gallery, San Francisco

1996 Puertas del Santuario: Paintings of the Mission San Juan Capistrano by Members of the CAC
March 9 – May 19, 1996 @ Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard

California Wetlands: Paintings of California’s Endangered and Protected Wetland
April 13 – September 1, 1996 @ Natural History Museum of Los Angeles

Eighty-Seventh Annual Exhibition
June 15 – 23, 1996 @ Los Angeles Arboretum

2nd Annual Plein Air Painting Event at Mission San Juan Capistrano
August 19 – 25, 1996

1997            East Coast Ideals – West Coast Concepts: The Living Legacy of the Boston School
                      and the California Impressionists
                      March 8 – May 18, 1997 @ Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard

                      Artists for Architecture (Proposed 710 Freeway Extension)
                      April 13, 1997 @ The Artist’s Inn, So. Pas.
                      May 3 – 16, 1997 @ Galerie Gabrie, Pas.
                      July 8 – October 4, 1997 @ Judson Gallery and Studios, L.A.

Eighty-Eighth Annual Exhibition
June 14 – 22, 1997 @ Los Angeles Arboretum

Sights and Sounds of Santa Ana: 1st Annual Plein Air Painting Event
June 30 – July 6, 1997 @ Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Santa Ana

3rd Annual Plein Air Painting Event at Mission San Juan Capistrano
August 11 – 17, 1997

1998            Treasures of the Sierra Nevada
                      May 28 – August 30, 1998 @ Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
                      September 12 – October 30 @ Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton

Sights and Sounds of Santa Ana: 2nd Annual Plein Air Painting Event
June 22 – 28, 1998 @ Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Santa Ana

Eighty-Ninth Annual Exhibition
July 11 – August 29, 1998 @ Luckman Fine Arts Complex, CSU Los Angeles

4th Annual Plein Air Painting Event at Mission San Juan Capistrano
August 10 – 16, 1998

1999 On Location in Malibu: Paintings by the California Art Club (I)
May 22 – August 7, 1999 @ Weisman Museum, Pepperdine University

Sights of Santa Ana/Scenes of Orange County: 3rd Annual Plein Air Painting Event
June 21 – 27, 1999 @ Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Santa Ana

5th Annual Plein Air Painting Event at Mission San Juan Capistrano
August 16 – 20, 1999

                      Visions of the San Gabriels
                      September 30 – December 4, 1999 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill
                      [Inaugural CAC exhibit at the Old Mill]

Gardens of the Huntington
December 5, 1999 – March 5, 2000 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

2000 Old California
March 7 – June 4, 2000 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

Ninetieth Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition
June 4 – July 30, 2000 @ The Pasadena Historical Museum

Historic Buildings of the San Gabriel Valley
June 6 – September 3, 2000 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

The First Annual California Spring Salon: Golden Impressions
June 8 – 30, 2000 @ Edenhurst Gallery & Morseburg Galleries

Plein Air Paintings of the Arroyo Seco (Part I)
June 18, 2000 @ La Casita del Arroyo, Pasadena

                      First Annual Maurice Brain Memorial Plein Air Painting Festival
                      June 24 – July 16, 2000 @ Santa Ysabel Gallery
                      [First San Diego Chapter Exhibition]

6th Annual Plein Air Painting Event at Mission San Juan Capistrano
August 14 – 20, 2000

Plein Air Paintings of the Old Mill by Members of the California Art Club
September 5 – December 3, 2000 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

Sights and Sounds of Santa Ana: 4th Annual Plein Air Painting Event
September 18 – 24, 2000 @ Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Santa Ana

Scenes of the Pacific
December 5, 2000 – June 3, 2001 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

2001 Adventures in the Sierra Nevada
March 6 – June 3, 2001 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

Finishing Touchesbsp; April 19 – September 28, 2001 @ The Blinn House, Women’s City Club, Pasadena
&n”>[Inaugural CAC exhibit at the Blinn House]

Ninety-First Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition
May 6 – July 29, 2001 @ The Pasadena Historical Museum

The Second Annual California Spring Salon
June 2 – 23, 2001 @ Edenhurst Gallery & Morseburg Galleries

Life on Southern California’s Beaches
June 5 – September 2, 2001 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

Chinatown Art Festival featuring the California Art Club
June 23 – July 22, 2001 @ Hong Gallery, Los Angeles

An Art Exhibit Honoring California Artists
July 19 – November 30, 2001 @ Holmes Body Shop of Pasadena

7th Annual Plein Air Painting Event at Mission San Juan Capistrano
August 13 – 19, 2001

Contemporary Views of L.A.’s Historic Chinatown
September 5 – December 2, 2001 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

Sights and Sounds of Santa Ana: 5th Annual Plein Air Painting Event
September 24 – 30, 2001 @ Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Santa Ana

                      Flowerscapes: Poems Without Words
                      October 15, 2001 – April 5, 2002 @ The Blinn House, Women’s City Club, Pasadena
                      [2nd Biannual]

Plein Air Paintings of the Arroyo Seco (Part II)
October 28, 2001 @ La Casita del Arroyo, Pasadena

Gardens of the Huntington II
December 4, 2001 – March 3, 2002 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

2002 Yosemite and Sierra Grandeur
March 5 – June 9, 2002 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

                      Painting the Wild Blue Yonder: Artists Focus on California’s Skies
                      April 18 – October 11, 2002 @ The Blinn House, Women’s City Club, Pasadena
                      [3rd Biannual]

                      Portrait of the Big Bay: A Plein Air Painting Festival
                      May 18, 2002 – January 6, 2003 aboard the 1898 Ferryboat Berkeley, San Diego Harbor
                     [Second San Diego Chapter Exhibition]

California H2O
June 11 – September 8, 2002 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

Ninety-Second Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition
June 30 – August 25, 2002 @ The Pasadena Museum of History

8th Annual Plein Air Painting Event at Mission San Juan Capistrano
August 12 – 18, 2002

American Artists Abroad
September 10 – December 1, 2002 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

Sights and Sounds of Santa Ana: 6th Annual Plein Air Painting Event
September 23 – 29, 2002 @ Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Santa Ana

                      Salon d’Automne: The Third Annual California Autumn Salon
                      October 5 – 26, 2002 @ Edenhurst Gallery & Morseburg Galleries

                      Paintings and Sculptures Created in the Studio: Still-Life and Figurative
                      October 24, 2002 – April 22, 2003 @ The Blinn House, Women’s City Club, Pasadena
                      [4th Biannual]

Paintings of the Old Mill, II
December 3, 2002 – March 2, 2003 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

2003 Ode to San Diego and the Eucalyptus
March 4 – June 1, 2003 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

                      Mountainscapes
                      April 22 – October 31, 2003 @ The Blinn House, Women’s City Club, Pasadena
                      [5th Biannual]

On Location in Malibu: Paintings by the California Art Club (II)
May 24 – August 3, 2003 @ Weisman Museum, Pepperdine University

Desertscapes
June 3 – September 7, 2003 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

California Art Club Artists Capture Pasadena and the San Gabriel Mountains
June 7, 2003 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art

California Art Club Artists Toast Pasadena Culinary Artists (I)
July 12 – August 8, 2003 @ Fine Artists Factory, Pasadena

9th Annual Plein Air Painting Event at Mission San Juan Capistrano
August 11 – 17, 2003

From Pasadena’s Arroyo to the San Gabriel Mountains
September 9 – December 7, 2003 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

Sights and Sounds of Santa Ana: 7th Annual Plein Air Painting Event
September 27 – 28, 2003 @ Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Santa Ana

Ninety-Third Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition
October 11 – November 2, 2003 @ The Pasadena Museum of California Art

                      Artist’s Choice
                      November 7, 2003 – April 17, 2004 @ The Blinn House, Women’s City Club, Pasadena
                      [6th Biannual]

Expressions of Winter
December 9, 2003 – March 7, 2004 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

2004 The Poetry of Still Life
March 7 – June 6, 2004 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

                      Images of Springtime
                      April 16 – November 1, 2004 @ The Blinn House, Women’s City Club, Pasadena
                      [7th Biannual]

                      Rising Young Stars
                      June 6 – September 19, 2004 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

                      Spiritual Spectrum: Paintings and Sculpture by the California Art Club
                      July 7 – August 27, 2004 @ Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles

California Art Club Artists Toast Pasadena Culinary Artists (II)
July 17 – July 31, 2004 @ Fine Artists Factory, Pasadena

In the Midst of Moonlight
September 21 – December 5, 2004 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

Ninety-Fourth Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition
October 17, 2004 – January 9, 2005 @ The Pasadena Museum of California Art

                      Cityscapes
                      November 5, 2004 – May 2, 2005 @ The Blinn House, Women’s City Club, Pasadena
                      [8th Biannual]

Monumental Miniatures
December 7, 2004 – March 6, 2005 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

2005 Spring Encounters
March 8 – June 5, 2005 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

                      Special Gardens
                      May 3 – October 30, 2005 @ The Blinn House, Women’s City Club, Pasadena
                      [9th Biannual]

Summer Leisure
June 7 – September 11, 2005 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

Yosemite: Native Spirits
September 13 – December 4, 2005 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

Rising Young Star: Amery Bohling
September 19 – November 13, 2005 @ Marston’s Restaurant

                      Our Cultural Landscapes: America’s National Parks
                      November 4, 2005 – May 7, 2006 @ The Blinn House, Women’s City Club, Pasadena
                      [10th Biannual]

Rising Young Star: Stacy Kamin
November 15, 2005 – January 15, 2006 @ Marston’s Restaurant

Monumental Miniatures II
December 6, 2005 – March 5, 2006 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

2006 Rising Young Star: Jeffrey Ward
January 17 – March 12, 2006 @ Marston’s Restaurant

Urban California
March 7 – June 4, 2006 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

Rising Young Star: Eric Merrell
March 14 – May 7, 2006 @ Marston’s Restaurant

Ninety-Fifth Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition
April 1 – 23, 2006 @ The Pasadena Museum of California Art

                      Celebrating 100 Years of History: The Blinn House and Historic California Landmarks
                      May 7 – October 15, 2006 @ The Blinn House, Women’s City Club, Pasadena
                      [11th Biannual]

Rising Young Star: Jason Mayr
May 10 – July 2, 2006 @ Marston’s Restaurant

On Location in Malibu: Paintings by the California Art Club (III)
May 20 – September 3, 2006 @ Weisman Museum, Pepperdine University

Celebrating the Golden State: Recent Artwork by Contemporary Members of the CAC (I)
June 12 – October 22, 2006 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

Rising Young Star: Barry O’Neill
July 3 – September 11, 2006 @ Marston’s Restaurant

Rising Young Star: Ariana Richards
September 11 – November 19, 2006 @ Marston’s Restaurant

Celebrating the Golden State: Recent Artwork by Contemporary Members of the CAC (II)
October 24, 2006 – February 18, 2007 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

                      Floating Waters and Coastal Vistas
                      November 4, 2006 – May 18, 2007 @ The Blinn House, Women’s City Club, Pasadena
                      [12th Biannual]

Rising Young Star: Zimou Larry Tan
November 20, 2006 – January 28, 2007 @ Marston’s Restaurant

2007            Rising Young Star: Daniel Ochoa
                      January 29 – April 8, 2007 @ Marston’s Restaurant

                      Celebrating the Golden State: Recent Artwork by Contemporary Members of the CAC (III)
                      February 20 – June 24, 2007 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

Rising Young Star: Ann McMillan
April 10 – June 17, 2007 @ Marston’s Restaurant

Ninety-Sixth Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition
April 30 – May 20, 2007 @ The Pasadena Museum of California Art

                      Wild Things
                      May 19 – October 31, 2007 @ The Blinn House, Women’s City Club, Pasadena
                      [13th Biannual]

In Full Bloom: Jean Osher, Elena Roché and Molly Siple
June 19 – September 17, 2007 @ Marston’s Restaurant

Celebrating the Golden State: Recent Artwork by Contemporary Members of the CAC (IV)
June 25 – October 21, 2007 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

California Art Club Celebrates City Hall!
July 22, 2007 @ Pasadena City Hall

1st Annual Faith & Hope Beyond Prison Walls
August 18, 2007 @ Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy, La Canada

Scenes of Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley (Part I)
September 18 – November 25, 2007 @ Marston’s Restaurant

Plein Air Paintings of the Arroyo Seco (Part III)
October 14, 2007 @ La Casita del Arroyo, Pasadena

Exhibition of California Landscape Paintings
October 16, 2007 to present @ Historic George H. Maxwell House, Pasadena, CA

Celebrating the Golden State: Recent Artwork by Contemporary Members of the CAC (V)
October 22, 2007 – February 24, 2008 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

                      Rivers and Harbors/Sources and Confluences
                      November 3, 2007 – June 5, 2008 @ The Blinn House, Women’s City Club, Pasadena
                      [14th Biannual]

CAC Invitational Paint-Out at The Getty Center
November 12, 2007 @ The Getty, Los Angeles

Scenes of Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley (Part II)
November 27, 2007 – January 27, 2008 @ Marston’s Restaurant

2008            Potpourri of Color
                     January 28 – March 31, 2008 by Pasadena Art Colony @ Marston’s Restaurant
                     [First exhibition @ Marston’s by the Pasadena Art Colony]

                      New Impressions – An Inaugural Exhibition of the California Art Club’s Orange County Chapter
                      February 9 – 29, 2008 @ Randy Higbee Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
                     [First Orange County Chapter Exhibition]

Celebrating the Golden State: Recent Artwork by Contemporary Members of the CAC (VI)
February 25 – June 22, 2008 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

Places in Time
March 31 – June 8, 2008 by Pasadena Art Colony @ Marston’s Restaurant

Ninety-Seventh Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition
April 27 – May 18, 2008 @ The Pasadena Museum of California Art

Arroyo Seco en Plein Air
May 14 – 30, 2008 @ Pasadena Public Library

People and Places I Remember
June 10 – August 17, 2008 by Pasadena Art Colony @ Marston’s Restaurant

                      Natural Beauty
                      June 23 – December 3, 2008 @ The Blinn House, Women’s City Club, Pasadena
                      [15th Biannual]

Celebrating the Golden State: Recent Artwork by Contemporary Members of the CAC (VII)
June 24 – October 17, 2008 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

Memories of Summer
August 18 – October 26, 2008 by Pasadena Art Colony @ Marston’s Restaurant

Plein Air Paintings of the Arroyo Seco (Part IV)
October 5, 2008 @ La Casita del Arroyo, Pasadena

Celebrating the Golden State: Recent Artwork by Contemporary Members of the CAC (VIII)
October 21, 2008 – February 22, 2009 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

Our Town Pasadena
October 28, 2008 – Januaru 8, 2009 by Pasadena Art Colony @ Marston’s Restaurant

Rialto Visions 2008: Icons and Landmarks of South Pasadena
November 2 – 30, 2008 @ SOPAS Gallery, South Pasadena

                      Concertos in Color
                      December 6, 2008 – June 10, 2009 @ The Blinn House, Women’s City Club, Pasadena
                      [16th Biannual]

2009 Still Lifes of the Season
January 12 – March 9, 2009 by Pasadena Art Colony @ Marston’s Restaurant

Celebrating the Golden State: Recent Artwork by Contemporary Members of the CAC (IX)
February 24 – June 21, 2009 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

Under California Skies
March 16 – My 18, 2009 by Pasadena Art Colony @ Marston’s Restaurant

                      California Art Club: Artists Explore Los Angeles
                      March 23, 2009 – January 12, 2010 @ Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce

                      Ninety-Eighth Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition
                      April 26 – May 17, 2009 @ The Pasadena Museum of California Art

Splash of Spring
May 18 – July 13, 2009 by Pasadena Art Colony @ Marston’s Restaurant

On Location in Malibu 2009: Paintings by the California Art Club (IV)
May 23 – August 2, 2009 @ Weisman Museum, Pepperdine University

                      Eternal Light
                      June 14 – December 2, 2009 @ The Blinn House, Women’s City Club, Pasadena
                      [17th Biannual]

Celebrating the Golden State: Recent Artwork by Contemporary Members of the CAC (X)
June 23 – September 27, 2009 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill

Summertime
July 20 – September 11, 2009 by Pasadena Art Colony @ Marston’s Restaurant

California’s Landscapes and Legacy
August 1 – September 27, 2009 @ Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT

I Love L.A.
September 21 – November 16, 2009 by Pasadena Art Colony @ Marston’s Restaurant

                      Paintings from the Southern Sierra Foothills: Capturing California’s Preserved Lands
                      and Historic Districts
                      September 29, 2009 – January 3, 2010 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill, San Marino, CA

South Pasadena: City of Trees
October 10 – November 6, 2009 @ SoPas Gallery, South Pasadena

                      Julian and the San Diego Back Country: A Centennial Exhibition of the CAC
                      November 7 – 29, 2009 @ The Julian Art Gallery, Julian, CA
                      [Third San Diego County Chapter Exhibition]

Pasadena on Parade
November 16, 2009 – January 18, 2010 by Pasadena Art Colony @ Marston’s Restaurant

                      THEN & NOW: Artists Explore the Bay Area
                      December 1, 2009 – January 9, 2010 @ Thomas Reynolds Gallery, S.F.
                      [First San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Exhibition]

                      Precious Gifts
                      December 6 – April 14, 2010 @ The Blinn House, Women’s City Club, Pasadena
                      [18th Biannual]

The California Art Club celebrates the Centennial of its Founding
December 2009

2010 Visions of the San Gabriels: Artwork by Signature Members of the California Art Club
January 5 – May 2, 2010 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill, San Marino, CA

California Landscapes, Celebrating 100 Years of the CAC
January 19 – March 28, 2010 by Pasadena Art Colony @ Marston’s Restaurant

                      Treasures of the East Bay: Paintings by Local Artists
                      March 1 – July 9 , 2010 @ Bernard E. Witkin Alameda County Law Library, Oakland, CA
                      [Second San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Exhibition]

Plein Air Paintings of the Arroyo Seco
March 14, 2010 @ La Casita del Arroyo, Pasadena, CA

The Object of One’s Expression
March 29 – June 7, 2010 by Pasadena Art Colony @ Marston’s Restaurant

                      Surf’s Up
                      April 17, – August 11, 2010 @ The Blinn House, Women’s City Club, Pasadena
                      [19th Biannual]

                      Historic Landmarks and Districts of Southern California: Artwork by Signature Members
                      of the California Art Club
                      May 4 – August 29, 2010 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill, San Marino, CA

                      Long Beach Bike Festival
                      May 8 – 10, 2010 @ Phantom Galleries L.A.
                      May 10 – 24, 2010 @ Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA

                      California Art Club Artists Celebrate the Ring Cycle
                      May 10 – July 16, 2010 @ Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles, CA
                      May 10 – June 4, 2010 @ Fine Arts Building, Los Angeles, CA
                      June 13 – July 3, 2010 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art (part of 99th Gold Medal)

Summer Heat
June 8 – August 16, 2010 by Pasadena Art Colony @ Marston’s Restaurant

Ninety-Ninth Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition
June 13 – July 4, 2010 @ The Pasadena Museum of California Art

                      California Heritage
                      August 14 – December 1, 2010 @ The Blinn House, Women’s City Club, Pasadena
                      [20th Biannual]

What a Wonderful World
August 16 – October 25, 2010 by Pasadena Art Colony @ Marston’s Restaurant

Capturing California’s Preserved Lands and Historic Districts: Gems from the Central Coast
August 31 – January 2 , 2011 @ the CAC Gallery at the Old Mill, San Marino, CA

Perimeters: Artists Explore South Pasadena and the Arroyo Seco
October 20 – November 13, 2010 @ SoPas Gallery, South Pasadena, CA

California Here We Come
October 25 – January 3, 2011 by Pasadena Art Colony @ Marston’s Restaurant

                  Golden State Treasures
                      December 4, 2010 – April 14, 2011 @ The Blinn House, Women’s City Club, Pasadena
                      [21st Biannual]

                      Magnificent Miniatures
                      December 4, 2010 @ The Blinn House, Women’s City Club, Pasadena

2011              Capturing California’s Preserved Lands and Historic Districts: Paintings of
                      the Tejon Ranch
                      January 6 – May 1, 2011 @ the CAC Gallery at The Old Mill

                      Northern California Light: Paintings by the California Art Club
                      January 8 – February 19, 2011 @ Thomas Reynolds Gallery, San Francisco, CA
                      [Third San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Exhibition]

                      Travel, Near and Far
                      January 10 – March 31, 2011 by Pasadena Art Colony @ Marston’s Restaurant

                      One-Hundredth Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition
                      April 3 – 24, 2011 @ the Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA

                      Gold Coast: Paintings of Southern California by the California Art Club
                      April 30 – June 12, 2011 @ the Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA

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