1. In particular, see Joseph Armstrong Baird, Jr., Northern California Art: An Interpretive Bibliography (privately published, 1977); James D. Hart, A Companion to California (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1987), 579-91; Nancy D. W. Moure, Dictionary of Art and Artists in Southern California before 1930 (Los Angeles: privately printed, 1975), xv-xix; Caroline A. Jones, Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950-1965 (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990), 182-91; Edan Milton Hughes, Artists in California , 2d ed. (San Francisco: Hughes Publishing Company, 1989), 3-10; Bonnie Clearwater, ed., West Coast Duchamp (Miami Beach, Fla.: Grassfield Press, 1991), 102-5; Bram Dijkstra et al., San Diego Artists (Encinitas, Calif.: Artra Publishing, 1988), 11-23. Additionally, Whitney Chadwick generously shared an unpublished chronology of surrealist activity in California with me, for which I am grateful. [BACK]

2. The numerous contributions of Kevin Starr merit special mention here, in particular Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985). Material Dreams: Southern California through the 1920s (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990), and Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996). This chronology also draws upon the following sources: Richard Cándida Smith, Utopia and Dissent: Art, Poetry, and Politics in California (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995); Steven A. Nash, Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; and Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995); Patricia Trenton, ed., Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995); Pacific Dream,: Currents of Surrealism and Fantasy in California Art, 1934-1957 , ed. Susan Ehrlich (Los Angeles: UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, 1995); Burton Benedict The Anthropology of World's Fairs: San Francisco's Panama Pacific International Exposition of 191?? (Berkeley: Scolar Press, 1983); Ruth Lilly Westphal, ed., Plein Air Painters of California: The Southland (Irvine, Calif.: Westphal Publishing, 1982), and Plein Air Painters of California: The North (Irvine, Calif.: Westphal Publishing, 1986); John Russell Taylor, Strangers in Paradise (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983); Paul J. Karlstrom and Susan Ehrlich, Turning the Tide: Early Los Angeles Modernists, 1920-1956 (Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1990); Thomas Albright, Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980: An Illustrated History (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986); David Gebhard and Harriette von Breton, L.A. in the 1930s, 1931-1941 (Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith, 1975); Sally B. Woodbridge, California Architecture (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1988); Peter Plagens, Sunshine Muse: Contemporary Art on the West Coast (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1974); Henry T. Hopkins, Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1977); Christina Orr-Cahall, ed., The Art of California: Selected Works from the Collection of the Oakland Museum (Oakland Museum, 1984); Susan M. Anderson, Regionalism: The California View (Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1988); Laurence P. Hurlburt, The Mexican Muralists in the United States (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1989); Paolo Polledri, ed., Visionary San Francisco (Munich: Prestel, 1990); Patricia Trenton and William H. Gerdts, eds., California Light, 1900-1930 (Laguna Beach Art Museum, 1990); Rebecca Solnit, Secret Exhibition: Six California Artists of the Cold War Era (San Francisco: City Lights, 1990); Therese Thau Heyman, ed., Seeing Straight: The f.64 Revolution in Photography (Oakland, Calif.: Oakland Museum, and Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1992); Thomas Weston Fels, Therese Heyman, David Travis, and Derrick Cartwright, Watkins to Weston: 101 Years of California Photography (Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1992); Jonathan Spaulding, Ansel Adams and the American Landscape (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995); and Susan Landaner, The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press; and Laguna Beach, Calif.: Laguna Art Museum, 1996). [BACK]