1. Lorser Feitelson, interviewed by Fiddle Danieli, Los Angeles Art Community, Group Portrait, Oral History Program, University of California at Los Angeles Art Library, 1982, 12. I have taken the liberty of streamlining this anecdote, without altering its intended significance.

2. Arthur Millier, "New Developments in Southern California Painting," American Magazine of Art 37 , no. 5 (May 1934): 241.

3. Feitelson interview, UCLA, 4.

4. Hans Burkhardt, interviewed by Einstein (no first name given), Los Angeles Art Community, Group Portrait, Oral History Program, UCLA Art Library, 1982, 42.

5. Edward Biberman, interviewed by Emily Corey, Los Angeles Art Community, Group Portrait, Oral History Program, UCLA Art Library, 1977, 75-77.

6. Millier, ''New Developments," 243.

7. Thomas Hart Benton, An Artist in America (New York: Robert M. McBride, 1937), 47, 48.

8. Feitelson interview, UCLA, 3.

9. Marsden Hartley, "Rex Slinkard," in Adventures in the Arts (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1921), 94. This essay was originally published in the catalogue of the 1919 Rex Slinkard Memorial Exhibition , Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art, Exposition Park. It was also reprinted in the 1929 Slinkard Memorial Exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles Museum.

10. Peyton Boswell, "Notes on Painting and Sculpture," Vanity Fair (March 1922): 15.

11. Edward Weston, quoted in the introduction to Merle Armitage, Warren Newcombe (New York: E. Weyhe, 1932), n.p.