Early Los Angeles Its 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. An Artist's Name looking like this denotes CAC
membership.
[Sources include the two-volume Artists in California
1786 - 1940 by Edan Milton Hughes.] | History
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ART
GALLERIES/VENUES
& ARTISTS EXHIBITED
EXHIBIT DATE(S)
& NOTES
Ainslie
Gallery Los Angeles, CA
Bischoff, Franz Arthur (1864 - 1929)
Exhibited
in:
1926
Henry, Harry Raymond (1882 - 1974)
1928
Redmond, Granville Richard Seymour (1871 - 1935)
1933
American
Gallery
Los Angeles, CA
Adams,
Clinton (1918-2002)
Exhibited
in:
1940
Barker
Brothers 818 West 7thStreet
Los Angeles, CA (pictured
above w/yellow wall sign and inset)
Notes:The
building, designed in 1925 in the Renaissance Revival style by
Curlett and Beelman, was said to have been inspired by the Strozzi
Palace in Florence.
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.
Blanchard
Music and Art Building
Located in Hotel Ivins
(pictured
above)
Tenth and Figueroa
Los Angeles, CA
Notes: Owned by Frederic[k] Winslow Blanchard (1878 - 1948); opened
in 1899. Taken over by W. S. Daniell (1865 - 1933) in 1912
and renamed The Daniell Gallery. (A Spring Exhibition for the Painters
Club of Los Angeles was planned here for May 1909, but was cancelled.)
Brand Library and
Art Center
1601 West Mountain Street
Glendale, CA (pictured
above)
Notes: The
original mansion was built by Leslie C. Brand and named El Miradero.
The design is similar to the East Indian Pavilion built for the 1893
Columbian World Exposition held in Chicago. The architecture is considered
Saracenic, with crenellated arches, bulbous domes and minars combining
characteristics of Spanish, Moorish, and Indian styles. In contrast
to the cool white exterior, a Victorian decor was followed inside.
Mr. Brand died in the house in 1925. He bequeathed El Miradero to
the city, although Mrs. Brand retained rights of residence until 1945.
The will provided that the property should be used exclusively for
a public park and library. Mrs. Brand died in 1945, and by 1956 the
mansion had been converted into Brand Library.
Glendale
Public Library
222 East Harvard Street
Glendale, CA (Central
Library pictured
above)
Notes: Library services
in Glendale were first provided in 1906.
Hansen, RobertaAsseln (1907 - 2003)
Exhibited
in:
1954 (1st prize), 1967 (solo)
Image
courtesy Pasadena Historical Museum
Grace
Nicholson Gallery 46 North Los Robles Avenue Pasadena, CA (pictured
above)
Notes: Grace
Nicholson's Chinese House and Emporium (the Gallery)
became the Pasadena Museum of Art in 1941, and then subsequently the
Pacific Asia Museum.
Bennett, Ruth Manerva (1899 - 1960)
Exhibited
in:
1928
Bonnet, Leon Durand (1868 - 1936)
1930
(solo)
Dann, Katherine Skeele
(1896 - 1963)
Exhibited
in:
1927, 1928 (solos)
Greek
Theater Located in Griffith Park
2700 North Vermont
Los Angeles, CA (pictured
above)
Notes: Built in 1929 according to the plans of Griffith J. Griffith (who
also paid for the Griffith Observatory; he originally donated the
land for what is now Griffith Park, covering 3,000 acres).
Hollyhock House
4800 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90027 (pictured above)
Notes: Designed by Frank
Lloyd Wright, this building became the CAC's Headquarters for 15 years,
from 1927 to 1942, as a gift from owner Aline Barnsdall. The formal
opening and reception for the Club's new location was on August 31,
1927, which included an exhibition of member's work.
Hollywood
Public Library
Hollywood, CA (pictured
above)
Notes: Hollywood Branch Library, facing Hollywood Boulevard ca.
1923, and later in 1939 moved, remodeled & turned to face Ivar
Street. Destoyed in 1939.
Aldrin,
Anders Gustav (1889 - 1970)
Exhibited
in:
1930 (solo)
Scheck,
Helen Mildred (1901 -1983)
1927
Hotel
Green 99 South Raymond Avenue Pasadena, CA (pictured
above)
The Tower
Gallery on the topmost floor of City Hall was possibly the location
that the Annual Exhibition was held in 1953 (and possibly
others).
Attridge,
Irma Gertrude (1894 - 1978)
Exhibited
in:
1953, 1954
Los
Angeles County Museum of Art
(LACMA)
3400 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA (pictured
above)
Notes: Originally the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art. In
1961 LACMA is established as a museum separate from the Museum of
Natural History. The new museum opens in 1965.
Barton, Loren Roberta (1893 - 1975)
Exhibited
in:
1920 (with Mabel Alvarez and Paul Lauritz), 1923 (solo), 1926 (solo),
1928
Los
Angeles Public Library
630 West
5th Street
Los Angeles, CA (pictured
above)
Notes: Built
in 1926 by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, it is the second biggest library
in the country.
Attridge,
Irma Gertrude (1894 - 1978)
Exhibited
in:
1943, 1946
Buff, Conrad (1886 - 1975)
Scheck,
Helen Mildred (1901 -1983)
1927
Marzon
Studio
Los Angeles, CA
Notes: Circa 1926
Mills
College Art Museum
Mills College
5000 MacArthur Boulevard
Oakland, CA 94613
Notes: Mills College was founded in 1852. The Art Gallery (now Art Museum) opened in 1925.
Nicholson Gallery - see Grace Nicholson Gallery.
Ohara
& Livermore Gallery
Pasadena, CA
Bowles, Caroline Hutchinson (1865 - 1923)
Exhibited
in:
1916
Paul
Kantor Gallery 7025 Melrose Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90038 (pictured
above)
Notes: Opened by Paul Kantor in 1951,
who is credited with discovering Richard Diebenkorn. The gallery is
still operating, now under the name Kantor/Feuer.
Perls
Gallery
8634 Sunset Boulevard
Beverly Hills, CA (pictured
above, photo courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution)
Notes: Owned by Frank Perls, opened late 1930's.
The gallery carried works by Matisse and Lipchitz, among others.
Santa
Monica Public Library
601 Santa Monica Boulevard Santa Monica, CA 90401
Barker, George, Jr. (1882 - 1965)
Exhibited
in:
1931 (solo)
Sierra
Madre City Hall
232 West Sierra Madre Boulevard
Sierra Madre, CA 91024
Bush, Ella Shepard
(1861 - 1948)
Exhibited
in:
1930
Southby
Salon 121 N. Larchmont Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA
Notes: Owned by Maxwell A. Southby (1883-1953), late pastor of
the Rossmore Congregational Church. Opened in 1924 and ran through
about 1930.
Brandriff, George Kennedy
(1890 - 1936)
Exhibited
in:
1927
Lukits, Theodore Nicolai
(1897 - 1992)
(Exhibited/represented?)
Southwest Museum
234 Museum Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90065 (pictured
above)
Notes: Founded in 1907, it was the first museum in Los Angeles . The museum
moved from it's original location in Downtown Los Angeles to its current
location in Mt. Washington in 1914.
Notes: Initially
opening as a bookstore in Echo Park, it was located there from 1926
to 1938 before moving to Sixth Street, where larger rooms allowed
for exhibition space. Owner Jake Zeitlin was friends with writers
Robinson Jeffers, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Mann and Henry Miller, as
well as locals Aline Barnsdall and Lloyd Wright, the son of FLW. The
photographer Edward Weston had his first exhibition at Zeitlin's in
1928. Other early shows included Rockwell Kent, Paul Landacre, Peter
Krasnow and Millard Sheets.
Bowers
Museum of Cultural Heritage
Constructed
1932 (Santa Ana)
Huntington
Art Gallery and Library
Founded
1928 (San Marino)
Los
Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Opened
1965
Los
Angeles Museum of History Science and Art Founded
1913 (Exposition Park)
In 1961 it split into two separate entities: L.A.'s Natural History Museum and LACMA.
Pasadena
Art Institute Founded
1922 (Pasadena)
Incorporated 1924. Absorbed the Pasadena Museum of Art in
1942, and in 1954 became the Pasadena Art Museum. In 1973 the name
changed to the Pasadena Museum of Modern Art. In 1974 it encountered
financial problems; after reaching an agreement with Norton Simon
in 1974, it reopened in 1975 as the Norton Simon Museum of Art at
Pasadena.
Pasadena Historical Society
Founded
1924 (Pasadena)
Founded as the Pasadena Historical Society, it was later known as the Pasadena Historical Museum until it changed to the Pasadena Museum of History in 2001. Since 1970, the Museum has been headquartered on the grounds of the Fenyes Estate.
Image courtesy Pasadena Historical Museum
Pasadena
Museum of Art
Founded
1941 (Pasadena)
Merged with the Pasadena Art Institute in 1942; see entry above. Pictured at right in 1962 in the Grace Nicholson Galleries (now the Pacific Asia Museum).
Image courtesy Pasadena Historical Museum
Santa
Barbara Museum of Art
Opened
1941 (Santa Barbara)
An Artist's Name looking like this denotes CAC
membership.
ART
SCHOOLS, INSTRUCTORS
& STUDENTS
NOTES
Art
Center School
West Seventh Street
Los Angeles, CA
Notes: The school
was founded in 1930 on West Seventh St. in Los Angeles, then moved to Third St. in Hancock Park (mid-1940's) before moving to its current location in Pasadena in 1976. In 1965 it became Art Center College of Design.
Scripps
College Art Department
Scripps College
1030 Columbia Avenue
Claremont, CA 91711
Notes: Founded 1928
Stickney
Art Institute
Corner of N. Fair Oaks and Lincoln Ave.
Pasadena, CA
(Stickney Memorial pictured above)
Notes: Originally built in 1897 by Susan Homer Stickney in memory of her sister. Became known as Stickney Hall around 1912 [or 1913]. In 1934 the original building was razed and a new building, the Stickney Memorial of Art, was built at Carmelita Gardens (Colorado Blvd. and Orange Grove) under the auspices of the Pasadena Art Institute. Eventually became the Norton Simon Museum (see entry above). [Pasadena Star-News, May 18, 1934]
Brooks, Mildred
Taught around 1934
Buff, Conrad
(1886 - 1975)
Clark, Alson Skinner
(1876 - 1949)
Feitelson, Lorser
(1898 - 1978)
Hansen, Ejnar (1884 - 1965)
Taught around 1934
Little, Portia
Taught around 1934
Lloyd, Lucile (1894 - 1941)
Director
1921-22
Mannheim, Jean
(1863 - 1945)
School
Founder
McLean, Grace
Taught around 1934
Miller, Richard Emil
(1875 - 1943)
Miller, Ruth Blanchard (1904 - )
Taught
portraiture after 1922
Murphy, Laurence (1872 - 1947)
Taught around 1934
Rose, Guy
(1867 - 1925)
Director
(1914) and teacher
Throop
University
Pasadena, CA
Notes: Founded in Pasadena in 1891. Beginning as Throop University
(1891-1892), its name was changed to Throop Polytechnic Institute
(1893-1912) and then to Throop College of Technology (1913-1919) before
becoming Caltech.
Batchelder,
Ernest Allan (1875 - 1957)
Joined
the Department of Art and Crafts in 1902.
Chouinard, Nelbert Murphy
(1879 - 1969)
U.C.L.A.
Department of Art
Notes: Founded
1919 in Los Angeles. Previously the Los Angeles State Normal School.
Hazen, Bessie Ella (1862 - 1946)
Delano, Annita
(1894 - 1979)
MacDonald-Wright,
Stanton (1890 - 1973)
Taught
1942-54
May, Beulah (1883 - 1959)
Taught
from 1921
McPhail,
Annie Christine Belle (1898 - 1985)
Taught
for 40 years
Morris, Adelaide (1881 - 1974)
Taught
until 1938
Murphy, Lawrence M.
(1872 - 1947)
U.S.C. School of Art and Architecture
Notes: U.S.C. is founded
1880 in Los Angeles; the school of Architecture and Art is founded in 1925.
Image
courtesy Pasadena Historical Museum 
photo courtesy of LA Public Library
