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CAC Publications and Scholarship

Under Peter and Elaine Adams, there has been an effort to connect the activities of the present organization with the history of the California Art Club. From the beginning of the club's revival, the CAC newsletter, edited by Elaine Adams, has an important part of not only publicizing its events but also in communicating with patrons and new members. In January 1994, the California Art Club Newsletter was change from a brief newsletter to a magazine format. It has a cover article, usually on an exhibition of historic paintings. That first issue had an illustration by Colin Campbell Cooper, a feature on the contemporary CAC artist William Stout as well as news of upcoming events. Over the past fifteen years, the CAC newsletter have published articles on a broad range of artists in the CAC newsletter including many features on some of its early members written by art historians and authorities such as Jean Stern of the Irvine Museum whose work has appeared there on many occasions. Newsletter articles have been published on Frank Tenney Johnson and the Alhambra painters of "Artist's Alley," Guy Rose, Millard Sheets, Edgar Payne, Thedore Lukits and William Wendt, all of whom were active members of the California Art Club in the 1920s. The newsletter also publishes previews and reviews on exhibitions of representational painting that its membership may find interesting including painters from the American Impressionist movement, French Salon painters and Victorian Artists. Many of these features have been written by Peter and Elaine Adams also by Gordon McClelland, Eric Merrell, William Stout, Cathy Springs, Amy Scott, Bruce Chambers and Dr. David Farmer. Early in the Adams administration of the California Art Club, the organization began funding professional catalogs for its special exhibitions and annual Gold Medal Exhibitions. These catalogs have featured scholarly essays by Jean Stern, Susan Landauer, Jane Dini and Deborah Solon as well as biographies of all of the exhibition's participants. In the online community, the web site of the CAC has also gradually posted detailed records of the early years of the organization that have been compiled by Eric Merrell, one of the CAC artists with a scholarly bent and interest in California History. Merrell has worked his way through a number of archives in order to find and post records from the California Art Club exhibitions and meetings as well as photographs of its many presidents.

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