Art aloneEnduring stays to us;The Bust outlasts the throne,—The Coin, Tiberius[5]The Plastic Club insignia was designed by Elisabeth Hallowell Saunders.

"[2][7] Early members included Elenore Plaisted Abbott, Paula Himmelsbach Balano, Cecilia Beaux, Fern Coppedge, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Charlotte Harding, Frances Tipton Hunter, Violet Oakley, Emily and Harriet Sartain, Jessie Willcox Smith, and Alice Barber Stephens, many of whom had been students of Howard Pyle.

[2][7] When the fall exhibition was held in 1898, the works of Pyle's former students, including Elizabeth Fearne Bonsall, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Jessie Willcox Smith, Charlotte Harding, Violet Oakley, and Angela De Cora, were singled out.

During the 1990s the club also sought to attract art students, offering free membership to two recent graduates a year.

[2] The Plastic Club building at 247 South Camac Street was added to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places in 1962.