1st Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition

California Art Club Gallery and Club-Room, Los Angeles, CA
January 31 – February 25, 1911
Formal Reception: Evening of Monday, January 30th, 1911

The California Art Club had its first show in the Gallery of the Ivins Apartments, 10th and Figueroa Street from January 31 to February 11. At this show, 64 paintings were exhibited by 19 members. Julia Bracken Wendt was the only woman and only sculptor represented in that initial exhibition of the Club.

Work(s) Exhibited

ANDERSON, Antony
3 studies (at least one of a head)

AUSTIN, Charles Percy
Surf and Fog – monotype; Summer Morning Surf – oil “sketches with figures”

AVERY, Kenneth Newell
portraits and figure studies (one nude)

BISCHOFF, Franz A.
florals and landscapes

BORG, Carl Oscar
Halcyon Days – oil (“a seascape of unusual brilliance”)

CONNER, Albert Clinton
Sunshine and Mist; Manhattan Beach – oil

COSTELLO, Val
2 landscapes

JOHNSON, Frederick
Brother – clay sculpture, plus several oils (symbolistic figures; “paintings of mysteries”)

KILPATRICK, Aaron E.
Sycamores; Sespe Canyon

LIDDELL, Frank R.
2 watercolors

MANBERT, R. B.
Sketch

MANNHEIM, Jean
figures/portraits and landscapes

MINER, Frederick R.
Point Fermin from the Malibu – oil

MOCINE, Ralph Fullerton
Sketch – oil

PUTHUFF, Hanson
landscapes

PUTNAM, Arion
Market at Juarez – oil; (“sketches with figures”)

SMITH, Jack W.
coastal paintings (“shore studies”)

WENDT, Julia Bracken
sculptures: bas relief portraits and small portrait busts

WENDT, William
5 landscapes (“remarkable studies of Southern California”)

Event Venue

California Art Club Gallery and Club-Room
10th and Figueroa Streets, Hotel Ivins, Los Angeles, CA