Art Colony: The Laguna Beach Art Association, 1918-1935

The exhibition is part of a year-long celebration marking the museum’s history and legacy, honoring those early artists who influenced the fabric of the developing community and surveys the evolution of the art association through the 1930s.

This exhibition of more than sixty paintings includes a number of works by major artists whose work was seen in the original exhibitions.

Although monographs have been published on several members of the art association—and some scholarship has focused on aspects of the organization—this will be the first large-scale, critical study to focus exclusively on the art association’s growth and development. 

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website. 

Image: Joseph Kleitsch, The Drug Store, c. 1925, oil on canvas, private collection