An intimate account, in three interlocked themes, of one mans remarkably complex life.

ART: Budd Hopkins is a nationally known Abstract Expressonist painter, with works in the collections of the Guggenheim, Whitney, and Metropolitan Museums, as well as Bostons Museum of Fine Arts and New Yorks Museum of Modern Art. In this revealing memoir, Hopkins explains the development of his work and describes with keen insight his friendships with senior artists such as Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, and Robert Motherwell, and the importance he finds in their work.

LIFE: Beginning with his childhood and...