Preface -- Note to new edition -- 1893-1919: Parents -- childhood -- schooldays -- travel -- Royal Academy schools -- 1919-1925: Hampstead studio -- church decorations -- downland -- theories of Dow and Bell -- Seven and Five Society -- Chantemesle -- Ben and Winifred Nicholson -- 1925-1933: First one-man exhibition -- Sussex and Shropshire -- Moatlands -- London Artists' Association -- 1933-1940: Hampstead in the 1930s -- 'Objective Abstractions': the end of the 7 & 5 -- marriage -- Suffolk -- 1940s: Greenleaves -- painting theory -- 'Painting is painting' -- first retrospective -- Isolation in the country -- Howard Bliss -- The Sheffield Incident -- 1950s: Nudes -- large-scale works -- development in landscapes -- 1960-1965: Motifs -- a painting day -- paint, brushes, canvas, palette -- uncertain health and weather -- recognition -- second retrospective -- 1965-1979: Seachange -- Greenleaves -- Music and painting -- consummation -- Notes -- Appendix: Some notes by IH on his mural at Cecil Sharp House -- Chronology -- Exhibitions -- Public collections -- Select bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Photo credits -- Index of works -- Index.
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