Contents

Epigraph

Introduction

1. Beyond the Pale: A Brooklyn Childhood, 1908–21

2. Breaking Away: Determined to Be an Artist, 1922–25

3. Art School: Cooper Union, 1926–28

4. National Academy and First Love, 1928–32

5. Enduring the Great Depression, 1932–36

6. From Politics to Modernism, 1936–39

7. Solace in Abstraction, 1940–41

Photographic Insert I

8. A New Attachment: Life with Pollock, 1942–43

9. Coping with Peggy Guggenheim, 1943–45

10. Coming Together: Marriage and Springs, 1945–47

11. Triumphs and Challenges, 1948–50

12. First Solo Show, 1951–52

13. Coming Apart, 1953–56

14. Dual Identities: Artist and Widow, 1956–59

15. A New Alliance, 1959–64

Photographic Insert II

16. Recognition, 1965–69

17. The Feminist Decade, 1970–79

18. Retrospective, 1980–84

A Note About Sources

Selected Bibliography: Frequently Used Sources

Notes

Searchable Terms

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Other Books by Gail Levin

Credits

About the Publisher