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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Palos Verdes Library District, Peninsula Center Library. Local History Center.
Title: Palos Verdes Community Arts Association Collection
Creator:
Palos Verdes Library District (1928-)
Identifier/Call Number: 017
Physical Description:
.5 Cubic Feet
1/2 legal document box
Date (inclusive): ca 1930 - 1981
Abstract: Collection includes exhibition catalogs, meeting minutes and agendas.
Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the Local History Center for access information.
The collection is open for research use.
[Name of item], Palos Verdes Community Arts Association Collection (Collection 017). Local History Center, Peninsula Center
Library, Palos Verdes Library District, Rolling Hills Estates, CA.
Wtih the opening of the Public Library and Art Gallery in 1930, the Palos Verdes Library District Board of Trustees created
a committee called the Committee on Art Exhibits and Art Functions to take charge of art exhibits and other art functions
in the new gallery. Members of the Committee included community members and Librarian Agnes McMillan who acted as the Secretary.
One of the first projects of the Committee was the opening reception and the first purchase prize.
In February 1931, the Committee on Art Exhibits and Art Functions discussed the formation of a community arts association
to carry on the management and expense of art exhibitions in the gallery apart from the Library's administration and funding.
In May 1931, the Palos Verdes Community Arts Association was officially formed as a nonprofit corporation and the work of
the Committee on Art Exhibits and Art Functions was taken over by the Association.
The goal of the newly formed association was to "establish and maintain in the community a center for the expression of beauty,
artistry and esthetics." Its purpose was "to foster an interest in the educational, social and civic conditions of the community;
to advance and carry on the study, development of knowledge of painting, etching, drawing, sculpture, woodcarving, architecture,
landscape architecture, literature, music, drama and the allied arts."
The Committee and Association exhibited materials by local and regional artists and organizations. Exhibits included works
by Ralph Holmes, Franz Geritz, and artists from organizations such as the California Water Color Society, Print Makers Society
of California, Art Clinic of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara Associates Artists' Division, the Laguna Group of the Laguna Beach
Art Association, Contemporary Artists of San Diego, Academy of Western Painters, and the Spectrum Club of Long Beach.
Exhibits also included materials prepared by the American Institute of Architects, Pacific-Coast Chapter, materials on loan
from the collection of Mrs. George Madison Millard of Pasadena, and an exhibit of Stowitts' American Champions.
In 2000, the name of the Association was officially changed to the Palos Verdes Art Center and in 2013, it was amended to
the Palos Verdes Art Center and Beverly G. Alpay Center for Arts Education.
Arranged alphabetically by creator, then by folder title; thereunder chronologically, with undated materials filed after dated
materials.
Includes correspondence, exhibition catalogs and programs of the Committee on Art Exhibits and Art Functions and later the
Palos Verdes Community Arts Association.
Initial housed in Palos Verdes Library District Collection correspondence. Rehousing and stabilization of materials and final
arrangement and description by Monique Leahey Sugimoto, April 2018.
Palos Verdes Library District Collection (Collection 018) and file 'Community Arts Association' included in Subject and Biographical
File Collection (Collection 013).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Community-based organizations
Exhibition catalogs