After a failed World Fair, prolific artists of the 1940s gathered for another San Francisco spectacle. “Art in Action” featured Diego Rivera, Herman Volz and another twenty artists working in a Treasure Island airplane hangar.
For four months in the summer of 1940, a unique exhibition took place on the newly created Treasure Island.
As Therese Poletti writes in “Art Deco San Francisco: The Architecture of Timothy Pflueger,” the idea first came to Pflueger in 1929 when he observed sculptor Ralph Stackpole working on a giant statue while standing on a scaffold and hidden behind a screen. Curious passersby stopped to see what was happening behind the screen, giving Pflueger the idea of staging a public exhibition of artists at work.
Richard Reinhardt writes in “Treasure Island: San Francisco’s Exposition Years,” “The promoters had grossly overestimated the size and spending habits of the audience. They were expecting about 2,500,000 customers each month. Less than half that number showed up during each of the first two months.” The star attraction of “Art in Action” was Rivera. Pflueger had become friends with the Mexican artist a decade earlier when Rivera had executed two major commissions in San Francisco.
Pflueger flew to Mexico in April 1940 to personally negotiate the contract, but getting Rivera to San Francisco proved to be an arduous ordeal. He was caught in a murderous swirl of Stalinist violence and Mexican revolutionary politics and had to flee the country. Rivera moved into an apartment on Telegraph Hill and began working on his mural in early June. After a Stalinist assassin killed Trotsky in July, an armed guard was stationed at the bottom of the scaffold.
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