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THE PRESIDENTS OF THE CALIFORNIA ART CLUB


An extensive listing of all the different leaders that the California Art Club has had. Click the name or photo to find out more information on each President, including samples of their artwork, biographies, memberships, and more.

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Frank Rennsselear LIDDELL
(1864 - 1923)
1st CAC President, 1909 - 1910

William WENDT

(1845 - 1946)
2nd and 4th CAC President, 1911 - 1914, 1917-1918

Benjamin Chambers BROWN

(1865 - 1942)
3rd CAC President, 1915 - 1916

Channel Pickering TOWNSLEY
(1867 - 1921)
5th CAC President, 1919

Photo courtesy Millard Sheets Library, Otis College of Art and Design

Jack Wilkinson SMITH

(1873 - 1949)
6th CAC President, 1920 - 1921
Photo courtesy of Jean Stern, The Irvine Museum

Dana BARTLETT

(1882 - 1957)
7th CAC President, 1922 - 1923

Edwin Roscoe SHRADER
(1878 - 1960)
8th, 10th and 14th CAC President; 1924 - 1926, 1927 - 1930, 1934

Photo courtesy Millard Sheets Library, Otis College of Art and Design

Edgar Alwin PAYNE

(1883 - 1947)
9th CAC President, May - Dec. 1926
Photo courtesy Evelyn Payne Hatcher

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Julian Ellsworth GARNSEY
(1887 - 1969)
11th CAC President, May 1930 - April 1931

Paul Starrett SAMPLE

(1896 - 1974)
12th CAC President, 1931

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Robert Merrell GAGE

(1892 - 1981)
13th CAC President,
1932 - 1933
Photo courtesy USC Archives

Frank Tenney JOHNSON

(1874 - 1939)
15th CAC President, 1935 - 1938

Photo courtesy of Jean Stern & Lois Ashe

Ralph William HOLMES
(1876 - 1963)
16th CAC President, 1939 - 1941

Paul LAURITZ

(1889 - 1975)
17th CAC President, 1942 - 1943

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John Hubbard RICH

(1876 - 1954)
18th CAC President,
1944
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Benton Francis SCOTT

(1907 - 1983)
19th CAC President,
1945
Photo courtesy Robert B. Scott

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Edward Oscar WITHERS
(1896 - 1964)
20th CAC President,
1946

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Edward Emile CHIAPELLA
(1879 - 1951)
21st CAC President,
1947 - 1948

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Innocenzo DARAIO
(1903 - 1993)
22nd CAC President, 1949 - 1950

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Charles James Gladstone ARGALL
(1893 - 1956)
23rd CAC President,
1951 - 1952

Philip Kran PAVAL
(1899 - 1971)
24th CAC President,
1953 - 1955

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Frank Leslie SANDFORD
(1891 - 1977)
25th CAC President,
1956

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Walter Frederick SEELEY
(1886 - 1959)
26th CAC President,
1957 - 1958

Jose DRUDIS-BIADA

(1890 - 1985)
27th CAC President,
1959
Photo courtesy Mount Saint Mary's College

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Horace Edmund HUEY
(1895 - 1963)
28th CAC President,
1960

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Victor Stanley MATSON
(1895 - 1972)
29th CAC President,
1961 - 1962

Herbert Dickens RYMAN

(1910 - 1989)
30th CAC President,
1963
Photo courtesy Ryman Arts

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Victor Carl HOUSER
(1895 - 1972)
31st CAC President,
1964

Joseph Morgan HENNINGER

(1906 - 1999)
32nd CAC President,
1965
Photo courtesy of ACCD Archives

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M. Hale BROWN
(1901 - 1987)
33rd CAC President,
1966 - 1968

Robert SCHAAR

(b. 1932)
34th CAC President, 1969 - 1970
Photo courtesy Schaar Galleries

Kaffy REINHARDT

(1918 - 1992)
35th CAC President,
1970 - 1974

Henry Ketting OLIVIER

(1924 - 2004)
36th and 38th CAC President, 1974 - 1977, 1981- June 1985

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Jean BLANCHARD
(d. 1990)
37th CAC President, 1977 - 1981

Renato CONTINI
(d. July 31, 1985)
39th CAC President,
July 1985

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Carol RENSEN
(n.d.)
40th, 42nd CAC President, August
1985 - 1989, 1990

Siegfried Conrad (Sig) VOGEL
(b. 1917)
41st CAC President, Oct.-Dec. 1989

Charles I. HARRIS
(b. 1922)
43rd CAC President, Jan. 1991 - 1993
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Peter Seitz ADAMS

(b. 1950)
44th CAC President,
Oct. 1993 - present
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