The countdown on the art season usually begins in Arizona when winter visitors forsake Scottsdale and go back East—about April 1.

This year everybody stayed an extra month, and many are still patrolling the galleries in the middle of May. Notable survival, contrary to predictions, was the recently opened modernist Main Street Gallery in Scottsdale, which began to show a profit when only six months old and attracted New York as well as local buyers for one-man exhibits of Roosevelt Woods (with assemblages and blustery oils making strong social comments) and Dagny Yares, (with fluent yellow-white