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.
