Board Members Search for Rent-Free Digs for Museum

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Ruby Leavitt unlocked the door to the Chaffey Community Art Association Museum of Art and turned on the lights. Betty Graber, an original member and a trustee of the collection, followed her inside the spacious gallery that s in the north wing of the historic Joseph Filippi Winery.

Icons of the California art world hang on walls paneled with old wine keg planks. The CCAA has one of the largest collections of California scene painters dating back to the 1940s. Milford Zornes, a watercolorist who influenced the Southern California style. Millard Sheets, considered the father of the California Style. John Svenson. Martha Underwood. There are more than 100 paintings and sculptures.

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Board Members Search for Rent-Free Digs for Museum

The Barbara Line Memorial Collection of nine paintings is the center piece and beginning of the art association s collection. Francis and Helen Line of Ontario founded CCAA in 1941 in memory of th...

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