Foundation members included "Jimmy" Ashton, Alfred Scott Broad, Edward Davies, C. Harrie Gooden, Andrew MacCormac, C. C. Presgrave,[c] G. A. Reynolds, J. Shakespeare, "Alf" Sinclair and his brother[6] "Joe" Wadham, John White, and E. J.
[7] Half of those named were also members of H. P. Gill's Adelaide Art Circle, which folded around this time, after less than two years' existence.
Later members included Paris Nesbit, Jimmy Saddler, Oscar Fristrom, Hans Heysen, Hayley Lever, Herbert Smyrk[d] and Marie Tuck.
Exhibitors included Wadham ("our premier artist"), Ashton, Reynolds,[13] Bartels, Gooden, Presgrave, White, J. S. Gold, R. Büring, C. Siemer, Fred Burford and C. F. J.
[14] In August 1894 an exhibition of oil portraits by Oscar Fristrom was mounted at the Easel Club rooms, including a portrait of well-known Adelaide personality Poltpalingada Booboorowie, aka Tommy Walker, which was bought by Sir Edwin Smith for the National Gallery of South Australia.