Table of Contents
Preface vii
Acknowledgment and Dedication ix
Prologue: Meeting Stella, June 1953 3
Chapter 1 March 1955: Discharged from the Navy 7
Chapter 2 Art School 11
Chapter 3 New Orleans, 1956 22
Chapter 4 Beginnings: Marriage, First Child, and Career, 1957 29
Chapter 5 Gentilly, New Orleans 47
Chapter 6 Back to the French Quarter 69
Chapter 7 New Home on St. Arm 78
Chapter 8 The Studio 92
Chapter 9 History: Past and Present 106
Chapter 10 Branching Out 131
Chapter 11 Stormy Weather 151
Chapter 12 Bryant Allen and the Jackson Gallery 167
Chapter 13 1967: A Very Good Year 185
Chapter 14 Trying Times 214
Chapter 15 Engaging the Civil War: Part I 231
Chapter 16 Engaging the Civil War: Parr II 249
Chapter 17 Back Home and on the Road 265
Chapter 18 Winds of Change 288
Chapter 19 Anticipating the USSR 302
Chapter 20 In the USSR 313
Epilogue 320