New York: Grove Press, (2003). First edition - A biography of one of America's most celebrated and exploited painters. In 1916, his haunting landscape, Brook by Moonlight, was sold at auction for $20,000, a record price for a painting by a living American artist. Yet at the time of his triumph, Blakelock was confined in a psychiatric hospital. His landscapes anticipated abstract expressionism but he who ended his life insane, in the care of a con artist, a young socialite, who siphoned off any money he earned, while his wife and children were penniless. Source notes, selected bibliography. x, 345 pp.