

JAF Community Outreach
Jonathan Club members all can visit either of its two world-class facilities, the Town Club and Beach Club, and experience and enjoy the...
Stephen Drake
Mar 20, 2020


Honoring JAF Past President Dick Oxford
I thought we would go back in time this month and share the circumstances and the reasons for the founding of the Jonathan Art...
Stephen Drake
Mar 20, 2020


Kent Twitchell: Portraitist
Los Angeles has always felt larger than life. Our artists, the film industry, movie and television personalities, our cultural firsts,...
Stephen Drake
Jan 1, 2020


Enhancing the Club Art Collections
2019 has been an exciting year for the Jonathan Art Foundation. We entered the year with a highly successful annual auction and...
Stephen Drake
Dec 1, 2019


John Marshall Gamble
JAF is excited to announce the acquisition of John Marshall Gamble’s (1863-1957) Poppies and Lupines (1912) for its collection. The piece...
Stephen Drake
Nov 1, 2019


Elmer and Marion K. Wachtel
Every creative genre has its famous couples, from John Lennon and Yoko Ono to Frida Khalo and Diego Rivera. In the California...
by Jennifer Gunlock, Collections Manager
Oct 1, 2019


JAF’s First Major Contemporary Art Acquisition
We have all heard of Andy Warhol, and most of us have heard of the green flash seen as the sun disappears into the Pacific. The Jonathan...
by William Pinney
Sep 1, 2019


Claes Oldenburg
“Here we grow again…” The Jonathan Club recently enhanced its collection by acquiring a Claes Oldenburg (b.1929) print entitled Sneaker...
Stephen Drake
Aug 1, 2019