The San Francisco Art Association (SFAA) was an organization that promoted California artists, held art exhibitions, published a periodical, and established the first art school west of Chicago. The SFAA – which, by 1961, completed a long sequence of mission shifts and re-namings to become the San Francisco Art Institute – was the predecessor of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Over its lifetime, the association helped establish a Northern California regional flavor of California Tonalism as differentiated from Southern California American Impressionism.[1]
- ^ Nash, Steven A.; Berkson, Bill; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (1995). Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area. University of California Press. pp. 35, 41, 44, 56, 58, 186. ISBN 0-520-20363-1.