The Cincinnati Art Club was formed in 1890 and is one of the oldest continually operating groups or collectives of artists in the United States.

[2] In the latter part of the 1800s a strong colony of working artists had established a small 'Montmartre' on the upper end of Vine Street in Cincinnati.

[4] Its first president was John Rettig and consisted of 14 members (which included a pet dog so the membership number wasn't an unlucky 13).

[5] The founding members were: Rettig, Clarence D. Bartlett,[6] James McLaughlin, Edward S. Butler, Matthew A. Daly, Albert O. Elzner, Edward Johnson, Remmington Lane, Leon van Loo, Lewis C. Lutz, William A. McCord, Perry Morris and Joseph Henry Sharp.

[11][12] 2018–2023 Donald A. Schuster 2016–2018 Clark Stevens 2012–2016 Todd Channer 2010-2012 Tom Bluemlein 2008-2010 Kay Worz 2006-2008 Tim Boone 2003-2006 Mike McGuire 2001-2003 Lester W. Miley 1998-2001 David Klocke 1995-1998 Roger Heuck 1993-1995 Judith Q. Barnett 1990-1993 Thomas R. Eckley 1989-1990 Oren Miller 1987-1989 Lester W. Miley 1985-1987 Martha Weber 1983-1985 Sherman Peeno 1981-1983 Dale Benedict 1978-1981 Lou Austerman 1976-1978 Ray Loos 1974-1976 Gene Hinckley 1973-1974 Charles Baltzer 1971-1973 Don Dennis 1969-1971 Joseph E. Peter 1967-1969 George Stille 1965-1967 Wilbur G. Adam 1964-1965 Ray Becker 24 April 1964 Charles W. L. Schlapp (Honorary President) 1963-1964 Jerome P. Costello 1961-1963 Mathias J. Noheimer 1959-1961 E. Kenneth Moore 1957-1959 George H. Strietmann 1955-1957 Frederic H. Kock 1953-1955 Vernon C. Rader 1951-1953 Joseph O. Emmett 1949-1951 Harland J. Johnson 1947-1949 Lawrence H. Smith 1945-1947 Merton W. Willmore 1943-1945 Maurice R. Rhoades 1941-1943 Norman H. Doane 1939-1941 Arthur L. Helwig[13] 1937-1939 Julian J. Bechtold 1935-1937 Carl J. Zimmerman 1933-1935 Reginald L. Grooms 1929-1933 Theodore C. Dorl 1928-1929 Ernest Bruce Haswell 1927-1928 John E. Weis 1924-1927 Ernest Bruce Haswell 1922-1924 Herman H. Wessel 1920-1922 George Debereiner 1918-1920 Martin Rettig[14] 1916-1918 James R. Hopkins[15] 1914-1916 Paul Ashbrook[7] 1912-1914 Theodore C. Dorl 1910-1912 Lewis Henry Meakin 1908-1910 John Rettig[16] 1908 Henry F. Farny[16] 1906-1908 W. F. Behrens 1904-1906 John Dee Wareham 1903-1904 Leon Van Loo 1902-1903 Paul Jones 1899-1902 John Ward Dunsmore 1898-1899 Clement Barnhorn 1896-1898 Frank Duveneck 1894-1896 Leon Van Loo 1892-1894 Henry F. Farny 1890-1892 John Rettig [17]