Gail Levin is Distinguished Professor of Art History, American Studies, Women's Studies, and Liberal Studies at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has written books on Edward Hopper, abstract expressionism, feminist art and American modernist art.
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 . 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 . 16. Recognition
1965-69 . 17. The Feminist Decade
1970-79 . 18. Retrospective
1980-84
