Paul J. Karlstrom, former West Coast Regional Director of the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art, is the editor of "On the Edge of America: California Modernist Art, 1900-1950" (UC Press) and a co-editor of "Asian American Art: A History, 1860-1970". He is coauthor of "Turning the Tide: Early Los Angeles Modernists", 1920-1956 and author of "Raimonds Staprans: Art of Tranquility and Turbulence".