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. [BACK]

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

3. Feitelson interview, UCLA, 4. [BACK]

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

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

6. Millier, ''New Developments," 243. [BACK]

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

8. Feitelson interview, UCLA, 3. [BACK]

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. [BACK]

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

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