S
Sailors' Union of the Pacific, 79
St. Lords Blues (Murphy), 212
Salinger, Jehanne Bietry, 4
Salomé (film; Bara), 214
Salomé (film; Nazimova), 212 , 213 , 214 , 239 n.3
Salomé (play; Wilde), 212 , 213 , 214 , 239 n.3
Sample, Paul, 172
San Diego Academy of Art, 275
San Diego Academy of Fine Arts, 278
San Diego Art Association, 274
San Diego Art Guild, 276
San Diego Art Students' League, 275
San Diego Fine Arts Society, 279
San Diego Friends of Art, 277
San Diego Moderns, 281
San Diego Museum of Art (formerly Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego), 279
San Diego Society of Arts and Crafts, 276 , 280
Sand Lot Riots (Refregier), 80 , 81
San Francisco: abstract expressionism in, 42 , 67 n.80;
anxiety over World War II, 54 ;
longshoremen's strike (see Pacific Maritime Strike); sense of community, in, 195 -96;
versus Southern California, 160 . See also California School of Fine Arts
San Francisco (film; Van Dyke II), 218
San Francisco (painting; Beckmann), 115 -16
San Francisco Art Association, 277
San Francisco Artists' and Writers' Union, 73 , 105
San Francisco Chronicle , 105 , 255
San Francisco Examiner , 73 , 85
San Francisco Institute of Art (formerly Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, later California School of Fine Arts), 275
San Francisco Museum of Art, 42 , 108 , 182 , 278 , 282 ;
Art in Cinema festivals, 233 , 236 ;
Dynaton exhibition, 198 -200;
exhibitions of abstract expressionism, 114 -15;
founding of, 100
San Francisco Photo Salon, 274
San Francisco Society of Artists, 277
San Francisco Society of Women Artists, 160 , 279
Santa Barbara Art Club, 279
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 284
Santa Barbara School of Fine Arts, 278
Santa Cruz Art League (formerly Jolly Daubers), 277
Santa Fe-style architecture, 141
Santa Monica Bay Art Association, 280
Sassoon, Siegfried, 45
Sausalito (Stauffacher), 235
Sawdust and Spangles (San Francisco Museum of Art), 64 n.39
Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design (San Francisco), 279
Scherer, Gordon, 84
Scheyer, Galka, 6 , 16 n.9, 100 -102, 101 , 103 , 226 ;
promotion of European avant-garde art, 249 , 267 n.7
Schiele, Egon, 171
Schindler, Rudolph M., 8 , 139 , 152 , 153 , 249 ;
Lovell Beach House (Newport Beach), 278
Schmidt-Rottluff, Karl, 111 -12
Schoelkopf, Alice, 113
Schoenberg, Arnold, 282
School of Design (Chicago), 112
School of Illustration and Painting (Los Angeles), 276
School of Mexican Painting, 129 , 130
Schwankovsky, Frederick, 13 , 236 -37;
Modern Music , 236 , 237
science: disillusionment with, 66 n.62;
and freedom, 33
scientism: aesthetics of, 32 ;
of modernism, 22 -27
Scripps College (Claremont), 280
Scripps House (La Jolla; Gill), 151
Scripps Recreation Center (La Jolla; Gill), 150
Scudder, Hubert, 69 , 79 -82, 83 , 84 , 86 , 89 -90n.2, 92 n.38
Sculptors' Guild of Southern California, 278
The Sea of Dreams (Newcombe), 214
Seated Man with Object (Oliveira), 117
Secessional Art Exhibition (San Francisco), 274
Second World War. See World War II
Section (Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture), 74 -75, 85 , 91 n.18, 282
Seeley, Evelyn, 73 -74
self-consciousness, transcendental unit), of, 32
self-invention, 11 -12
Self-Portrait (Lundeberg), 176
Selz, Peter, 13
Selznick, David O., 214
Serisawa, Sueo, 173
Shahn, Ben, 122
Shakespearian, Equations (Man Ray), 193
Sharaku (Peterson), 238
Sheeler, Charles, 168 , 171
Sheets, Millard, 13 , 45 , 107 , 123 , 131 , 166 ;
Abandoned , 171 ;
Angel's Flight , 171
Shelley, John, 82 -83, 88
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 70
Sherwood, Robert E., 239 n.3
Shore, Henrietta, 169 -70, 276 ;
California Data , 170 ;
exhibition at Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art, 277 ;
Waterfall , 170
Sidereal Parturition (Merrild), 174 , 175
Siegrist, Louis, 6 ;
Oakland Quarry , 6
Sinclair, Upton, 70
Singal, Daniel Joseph, 21 , 36 n.3
Siqueiros, David Alfaro, 105 , 129 ;
influence on Los Angeles muralists, 134 ;
Olvera Street mural, 122 ;
on sociopolitical use of art, 132 , 134 ;
Tropical America , 106 -7, 130 , 132 , 282
Six Gallery, 203 , 209 n.67
683 Brockhurst gallery (Oakland), 251 , 256 , 264 -65;
"First Salon of Pure Photography" exhibition, 259
Slinkard, Rex, 13 , 26 , 161 -63, 275 ;
memorial exhibition at Los Angeles Museum of Art, 277 ;
Young Rivers (Riders) , 162
Sloan, John, 15 n.6
Sloun, Frank van, 275
Slow Swirl by the Edge of the Sea (Rothko), 208 n.64
Smith, Bertha H., 149
Smith, George Washington, 139
Smith, Harry, 233 , 234
Smith, Hassel, 55 , 56 , 57 , 65 n.51, 100 ;
The Communist Manifesto in Pictures , 285 ;
reactionary regionalism of, 62
Smith, Jack, 214
Smith, Mrs. George Washington, 130 -31
Smith, Tony, 238
Société Anonyme, 192
Society for Sanity in Art (San Francisco; formerly Society of Western Artists), 79 , 283
Society of Cinema Arts, 233
Society of Independent Artists (New York City), 124
Society of Mexican Artists, 124
Society of Six, 6 , 16 n.8, 100 , 278
Society of Western Artists (San Francisco; later Society for Sanity in Art), 79 , 283
The Soul of the Cypress (Murphy), 212
Sound Pendulum, 228 , 229
Southern California, 192 ;
artistic independence in, 158 -59;
isolation of, 166 ;
versus San Francisco, 160 . See also Los Angeles
Southern California Art Dealers' Association, 280
Southern California Art Project (Works Progress Administration), 43
Southern California Film Society, 240 n.19
South of Market Boys Association, 82
Southwest Museum (Los Angeles), 275
space and time fluidity, theme of, 196
Spanish Colonial revival in architecture, 139
Spanish Village Art Center (San Diego), 283
Speed, Joshua, 70
Speicher, Eugene, 112
Spohn, Clay, 11 , 64 nn.28, 31, 202 , 203 n.2;
as art instructor, 57 ;
Balloonic Uplifters , 50 ;
Bedroom Fluff , 53 ;
comedic talent of, 52 -53;
Fantastic War Machines and Guerragraphs , 45 , 50 -55, 63 n.25, 64 n.41;
Hover Machine , 50 , 51 ;
Mouse Seeds , 53 ;
Museum of Unknown and Little-Known Objects , 53 , 205 n.19;
Old Embryo , 53 ;
relationship with Duchamp, 205 n.19;
The Rolling Fort , 50 , 51 , 52 ;
Spy Detector , 50 ;
Tornado Machine , 50 ;
The Unsinkable Fort , 53 ;
Wake Up and Live , 54 -55;
Wind Machine , 52
Spy Detector (Spohn), 50
Stable Gallery (New York City), 16 n.14
Stackpole, Peter: Willard Van Dyke with View Camera , 265
Stackpole, Ralph, 99 -100;
Industries of California , 105
Stanley, George, 134
Starr, Kevin, 4
State Normal School of Manual Arts (Santa Barbara), 275
Stauffacher, Frank, 233 , 285 ;
Notes on the Port of St. Francis , 235 ;
Sausalito , 235
Stein, Michael and Sara, 108
Stendahl, Earl, 122 , 278
Stendahl Art Galleries (Los Angeles), 134 , 183 , 278
Stendahl (Earl) Prize, 127
Stern, Mrs. Sigmund, 122
Sternberg, Josef yon, 122
Sterne, Maurice, 100
Stich, Sidra, 52 , 205 n.28
Stickney Memorial Art School (Pasadena), 276
Stieglitz, Alfred, 165 , 251 , 256
Stijl, De, 193
Still, Clyfford, 42 , 114 , 286 ;
affirmative shift of, 66 n.67;
anticlassicism of, 57 -58;
antisurrealist sentiments of, 202 ;
as art instructor, 57 , 65 n.60;
exhibitions, 284 ;
political orientation of, 55 ;
Still, Clyfford (continued )
reactionary regionalism of, 62 ;
use of red and black by, 43
Stillman, George, 56
Stock Exchange Tower mural (Rivera), 103
Stone International Gallery (Monrovia), 279
A Stone That Dreamed (Onslow-Ford), 198 , 199
The Storm Tree (Brigman), 247
Strand, Paul, 251 , 267 n.10
Stravinsky, Igor, 283
Struss, Karl: In the Southland, Mt. Baldy, California , 246
Stryker, Roy, 244
stucco, 142 , 144 , 149
Sturtevant, Roger, 257 , 269 n.27
subjective classicism. See postsurrealism
subjectivity, 27 , 30 , 43
suffering, theme of, 48 -49, 58 , 61
Suicide (Hay and Robbins), 221 -22
Sunset Boulevard Art School (Los Angeles), 277
Sunset Boulevard at Everett Street (Baranceanu), 171
surrealism, 25 , 181 -209;
abstract, 196 ;
Arensberg collection, 183 , 204 n.5;
attitude toward women, 204 n.9;
dialectic of order and chaos, 193 , 195 , 205 n.28;
European influences on, 181 -83, 200 -201, 207 -8n.56;
exhibition in Mexico, 196 ;
in film, 200 -201, 207 -8n.56;
fortune or chance as theme in, 205 n.24, 206 n.41;
freedom as central to, 181 ;
French, 13 ;
and Freud, 196 , 223 ;
gallery exhibitions, 181 -82;
humanity as barbaric, view of, 52 ;
and individual imagination, 43 ;
lectures by Dalí, 194 ;
lectures by Lemaître, 194 ;
lectures by Man Ray, 194 ;
lectures by Onslow-Ford, 196 ;
leftist orientation of, 191 , 205 n.17;
the marvelous, 193 -94;
and mistrust of rationality, 33 ;
museum exhibitions, 182 , 203 n.2;
organic, 188 ;
Paris International Surrealist Exhibition , 196 ;
as political revolution, 203 -4n.3;
versus postsurrealism, 182 , 183 , 184 , 201 , 208 n.58;
reality versus fiction in, 192 . See also automatism
Swerling, Jo, 122 , 130
Swift, Henry, 254
synchromism, 8 , 167
Synchromism (Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art), 280
synchronization, 228
Syndicate of Painters, 127