231 pp.; folio; cloth in pictorial jacket; color reproductions throughout; photographs. This copy signed on the title page by three artists prominently feature in the book: Theophilus Brown, Bruce McGaw, and Paul Wonner. A third signature, more cryptic may be by the author under her printed name on title page, with a circular flourish and arrow pointing to the written word 'Me'. This book served as the catalog for an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

"During the 1950s a few painters in the San Francisco Bay Area began to stage personal, dramatic defections from the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism, creating what would come to be known as Bay Area Figurative Art. This study of the movement as a whole offers an account of the careers and interactions of ten Bay Area artists."