The Painters' Club of Los Angeles was a short-lived arts organization that existed from 1906 to 1909, and allowed only men as members.
When the group disbanded a number of artists who had been members reorganized themselves as the California Art Club, including Charles Percy Austin (1883–1948), Franz Bischoff (1864–1929), Carl Oscar Borg (1879–1947), Benjamin Brown (1865–1942), Hanson Puthuff (1875–1972), Jack Wilkinson Smith (1873–1949), and William Wendt (1845–1946).
Beginning with its founding in December 1909, the new California Art Club widened its membership guidelines to include female painters and sculptors of any gender.
Four artists in Indiana, Albert Clinton Conner (1848–1929), his brother Charles Fremont Conner (1857–1905), Frank J. Girardin (1856–1945), and Micajah Thomas Nordyke (1847–1919) were responsible for founding the Rambler's Sketch Club (c. 1881); they soon added John Elwood Bundy (1853–1933) to their small art group.
The intended mission of the club was "to meet in the spirit of comradeship and good temper for mutual criticism and suggestion on one another's recent work."
Albert Clinton Conner was elected President and Antony Anderson, the Los Angeles Times' first art critic, was chosen to be the first Secretary and Treasurer.
Referred to only as "...the second annual exhibition of works by representational oil painters of Southern California...," it ran from November 16 – December 4, 1909, and though "...only 15 painters in oils have contributed to this exhibition...", that included work by major artists Franz Bischoff, Carl Oscar Borg, Hanson Puthuff, and William Wendt.
Perhaps The Painters' Club felt it would ultimately be better to allow women to join and unify the strongest artists, regardless of gender, into one group.