Adelaide Easel Club

The Adelaide Easel Club was a society for South Australian painters founded in 1892 and which merged with the Society of Arts in 1901.

The club was founded in November 1892 when a group of Adelaide artists, having broken away from the South Australian Society of Arts, which succeeded the South Australian Academy of Arts, formulated a set of rules, one of which was that members must submit a sketch at each meeting based on a subject nominated at the previous meeting, and which would be shown to fellow members (students at the School of Art formed the "Adelaide Sketch Club" along similar lines fifteen years earlier.) The first subject was "Solitude".

Foundation members included "Jimmy" Ashton, Alfred Scott Broad, Edward Davies, C. Harrie Gooden, Andrew MacCormac, C. C. Presgrave,G. A. Reynolds, J. Shakespeare, "Alf" Sinclair and his brother"Joe" Wadham, John White, and E. J. Woods. Later members included Paris Nesbit, Jimmy Saddler, Oscar Fristrom, Hans Heysen, Hayley Lever, Herbert Smyrk and Marie Tuck.

Club meetings were at first generally held at the studios of Wadham & Sinclair, Colonial Mutual Building, King William Street, but occasionally at James Ashton's art school and studio in Norwood, later at their own premises, 62 Rundle Street (Fritz & Bernard's Art Palace or Fruhling's studios; later the site of the York Theatre)

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