This season, the Jonathan Art Foundation invites you to step beyond the printed page and into the fantastic, imaginary world of one of the 20th century’s most iconic artistic talents. The JAF are thrilled to announce that their upcoming Gala will feature a special, limited engagement exhibition: The Cat Behind the Hat! For over 60 years, Theodor Seuss Geisel (better known to the world as Dr. Seuss) captivated millions with his whimsical illustrations and rhyme. Yet, his artis

Verbena Time on the Desert, by Fred Grayson Sayre The Jonathan Art Foundation was thrilled to acquire Fred Grayson Sayre’s Verbena Time on the Desert at the California Plein Air art auction, held last November by John Moran Auctioneers. The exceptional work will be on display in the Town Club this month. Before the auction, the painting was one of four Sayre western scenes hanging in an estate in Tennessee. Fred Grayson Sayre, who signed his paintings “F. Grayson Sayre,” was

Upcoming Events Beach Club Paint Out: September 29 - October 3rd Beach Art Preview: October 9th Online Benefit Auction: October 13-26th Annual Gala: ‘Street Art vs. Graffiti’ Saturday, October 25th After being postponed from the usual yearly March edition, the Jonathan Art Foundation’s Gala and Auction will return in October with a flurry of activity and will redouble our fundraising efforts for the year. There’s the return of our highly anticipated online auction, which will

This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA. Andy Warhol needs no introduction, but I’ll give him one anyway: pop artist, provocateur, fame-obsessed mirror to America’s consumer culture and also, surprisingly, a practicing Catholic who painted cats and once said he wanted to be a tap dancer. Most of us know Warhol for the soup cans and Marilyns, the wigs and the Factory, and the now-inescapable phrase, “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.”

The Jonathan Club owns work by six incredible female artists as part of its collection. Three of these are contemporary figures, whose creations reside at the Beach Club, while the other three are some of the most well-known names to put a brush to canvas in the field of plein air painting, and who honed their technique in Southern California during the 1920s and 1930s. The cover essay in the Spring 2025 issue of the California Art Club provides an in-depth rationale for why

Emil Kosa Jr. Expanding further on last month’s exploration into our artists who have also worked in early cinema in LA. While his name might not ring out like the stars he worked behind, Emil Kosa Jr.’s artistry shaped the way generations have seen Hollywood. A master of visual effects and a celebrated fine artist, Kosa bridged the worlds of film and painting with rare grace, leaving an indelible mark on both. Born in Paris in 1903 to a painter father and a pianist mother, c

Granville Redmond in his studio Granville Redmond quickly became one of Southern California’s leading landscape painters. He is regarded by art historians such as Nancy Dustin Wall Moure as “the area’s first important resident Impressionist,” given that his earliest works demonstrate a love of high horizon, light colors, and dashed brushstrokes. Yet they also combine qualities espoused by the Barbizon school, such as a focus on small glades, pastoral fields, and cloudy skies.

Pictured: Mike Lundgren (picture by Willie Osterman), Natalja Kent, Michael James Hillman, Lincoln Mayne (picture by Brian Ziegler) , Michael DeSutter, Joseph Kleitsch, George Gardner Symons, Grafton Tanquary Anyone familiar with the Jonathan Art Foundation knows that we’re unfailingly ambitious. We shoot for the moon every year, hammering home the importance of our JAF mission and welcoming new works into our esteemed collection by artists past and present. This was a year u