Painters and Sculptors Club of Los Angeles By-Laws and Minutes
name: label: Creator
content: Painters and Sculptors Club of Los Angeles
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 2001 by Tim and Lynn Mason.
creator: label: Creator
content: Painters and Sculptors Club of Los Angeles
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art organization, Los Angeles, Calif.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1923-1934
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.painscuc
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This collection includes the ledger of the Painters and Sculptors Club of Los Angeles, which documents the creation of an organization of male artists modeled after the Salmagundi Club of New York and the Palette and Chisel Club of Chicago. The minutes record the activities and exhibitions of its members. The first meeting was held in 1923 and the group was incorporated in 1927. This document also includes the signatures of charter members. Some of the most prominent male artists working in Los Angeles are included, such as, Joseph Kleitsch, John Cotton, F. Grayson Sayre, Leland Curtis, A. Phimister Proctor, Dana Bartlett, Franz Bischoff, Merrell Gage, Roger Nobel Burnham, Joseph Greenbaum, Edouard Vysekal, Christian von Schneidau, Alson Clark, John Frost, Edgar Payne, Paul Sample, Arthur Beaumont, and Norman Chamberlain.