Join art historian Linda Loveland Reid as she charts a course of mid-20th century Modern Art in the Bay Area: Artists Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko exploded onto the California scene and pushed painters out of their comfort zone. Abstract Expressionism became the norm. An association named The Society for Sanity in Art declared modern art a Communist movement. Bay Area artists rebelled. Figurative Art emerged as a Bay Area tradition exemplified by work of artists Hassel Smith, Sam Francis, Frank Lobdell, Elmer Bischoff, Richard Deibenkorn, and David Park.