The Society for Sanity in Art was an American artist's society whose members strongly opposed all forms of modern art, including cubism, surrealism, and abstract expressionism.
[1] Margaret Fitzhugh Browne founded the Boston branch, and led it in protesting a 1940 exhibit of paintings by Picasso at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
The society's San Francisco branch sponsored an annual art exhibit-for-sale by its members at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor at least as late as 1945.
[1][4] Artists that supported the group's cause included William Winthrop Ward, Florence Louise Bryant, Percy Gray, Rudolph F. Ingerle, Frank Montague Moore, Thomas Hill, Frank Charles Peyraud, Theodore Wores and Chauncey Foster Ryder.
[1] The Society gave awards to artists who met its standards of "sanity", included the Logan Medal of the Arts.