The political climate and economic turmoil in Germany was of tremendous concern to Scheyer in 1932. With the modest sponsorship of the Oakland Art Gallery, she travelled to Europe to select new works from her “Blue Four” to exhibit in California. Arriving in Paris, she visited Marcel Duchamp and Constantin Brancusi, as well as Giorgio de Chirico and Piet Mondrian. In February of 1933 she travelled to Dessau where she visited Feininger and Klee. By March 1933, the National Socialists were elected to power and Hitler assumed dictatorial control of the government. The Bauhaus was closed in April 1933, and Klee was ousted from his position in Düsseldorf, accused of being a “Galician Jew.” The persecution of the avant-garde artists prompted the Blue Four to move in 1933, with Klee immigrating to Switzerland. With a sense of urgency, Scheyer arranged for a shipment of more than 250 works by the Blue Four to Los Angeles, subsequently returning to California via New York and Chicago. Working with an extremely small budget, Scheyer would organise numerous exhibitions for the Blue Four in San Francisco, Oakland, Hollywood and New York enjoying a certain exclusivity. Scheyer left her estate to the Pasadena Art Museum which is now the Norton Simon Museum.

Exhibition history:

Museum of History, Science, and Art, Los Angeles [divided in 1961 into the Los Angeles County Museum of History and Science and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)) The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee (October 1933), catalogue, no. 139 (not illustrated)

Hollywood Gallery of Modern Art, Los Angeles. Paintings by Paul Klee (31 July - August 1935), travelling to: Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, California (1-29 September 1935); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (October 1935)

San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Klee (12 January - 26 February 1937)

Howard Putzel Gallery, Hollywood, Recent Pictures by Paul Klee (15 November - December 1937), catalogue no. 39 (not illustrated)

Nierendorf Galleries, New York, Paul Klee. A Choice Collection of the Master’s Work (24 October - November 1938),

catalogue no. 14 (not illustrated)

Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, Closing Exhibition. Sculpture, Paintings and Drawings (8 June 1955), catalogue no. 58 (not illustrated)

Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Die Blaue Vier. Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Klee (5 December 1997 - 1 March 1998) travelling to: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (28 March - 28 June 1998) catalogue no. 143, p. 40, illustrated in colour

Fundación Mapfre, Madrid, Jawlenski. La Promesse du visage (11 February-9 May 2021)travelling to Musée Cantini, Marseille (11 June -26 September 2021); Musée d’Art et d’Industrie André-Diligent, La Piscine, Roubaix (6 November 2021-6 February 2022), catalogue illustrated in colour