The autobiography of a painter who has managed to keep himself a storm center for more than one reason. His studies, types of work, his friends, enemies, quarrels, his work as an official war artist for England, and the results of those paintings, his two visits to America and what came of that, his comments, criticisms, observations of people, art and life, all make interesting reading. The appeal of the book is not confined to the artistically minded.

The autobiography of a painter who has managed to keep himself a storm center for more than one reason. His studies, types of work, his friends, enemies, quarrels, his work as an official war artist for England, and the results of those paintings, his two visits to America and what came of that, his comments, criticisms, observations of people, art and life, all make interesting reading. The appeal of the book is not confined to the artistically minded.