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

Consequences 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

Expanded edition: Hopper's legacy ; Erased but not forever: the recovery of Jo Nivison Hopper ; Hopper's legacy for visual artists ; Hopper's legacy for cinema.