Introduction : Truth and pain
The roots of conflict : 1882-1899
Defining the talent : 1899-1906
Seductive Paris : 1906-1907
The ambivalent American : 1907-1910
In search of a style : 1911-1915
The detour through etching : 1915-1918
The deeper hunger : 1918-1923
The leading lady
First success : 1923-1924
Getting established : 1925-1927
On the road to America : 1928-1929
Recognition : 1930-1933
First retrospective and the Truro House : 1933-1935
An intellectual self-portrait
Consequence of success : 1936-1938
The struggle to paint : 1939
The war begins : 1940
Failed odyssey : 1941
Nighthawks : 1942
Mexico : 1943
War on the home front : 1944
The aesthetic divide : 1945
Anxiety : 1946-1947
Illness and loss : 1948
Melancholy reflection : 1949
A retrospective year : 1950
Mexico again : 1951
Planning reality : 1952
Reality : 1953
Taking stock : 1954
Personal vision : 1955
Time cover story : 1956
Toward reconciliation : 1957-1958
Excursion into philosophy : 1959
Protest : 1960
Prints again : 1961-1962
Last rehearsal : 1963-1964
Final curtain : 1965-1967
Bibliographical notes
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Expanded edition
Preface
Preface
Hopper's legacy
Erased but not forever : the recovery of Jo Nivison Hopper
Hopper's legacy for visual artists
Hopper's legacy for cinema
Endnotes
List of illustrations.